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Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure were exported across Southeast Asia

Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure were exported across Southeast Asia

Name: Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure were exported across Southeast Asia
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Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure were exported across Southeast AsiaAsmat people, early to mid 20th century, Irian Jaya (Papua), Indonesia Beautiful early cassowary bone dagger, finely worked and decorated with delicate incised line motifs. Daggers of this type are known as pi pisuwe, while those carved from human femur were reserved for the most sacred and high status contexts. Although carried during displays of warfare, bone daggers were principally used in ritual killings, initiations, and ceremonial attire,

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were exported across Southeast Asia

It became a hallmark of the Ming dynasty's funerary art

Most tools like this barbed point were lost to lakes or bogs

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