Spike of hardwood

Maker
Unknown Maker
Description
In 1974 Waikato Museum acquired a selection of items, including this spike of hardwood, from Graham Jackson. Jackson was a New Zealand anthropologist who spent time living with and researching the Kopon and the Kalam people of the Lower Kaironk Valley in Papua New Guinea.

Jackson fieldnotes: Tapering spike of hardwood. Block palm = wym; base on the ground = y!. When food is stolen from a garden a number of these may be put in the ground on the path to the garden, so that whoever is stealing the food will stand on one. Probably manufactured by men.
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Object detail

Maker
Media/Materials
Wood.
Measurements
181 x 10 x 9mm - LxWxD
Production place
Lower Kaironk Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Collection
Graham Jackson Collection/New Guinea Collection/Ethnology
Department collection type
Ethnology
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1974/64/46

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