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Old 25th March 2014, 11:04 PM   #1
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Hello Danny,

The decorated woodcarving and the hair looks familiar.
I have similar examples and as far as I know this is indeed celebes.

Not a tawara as far as I am concerned.
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Old 26th March 2014, 12:51 PM   #2
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Here a nice photograph of a row of spears from Celebes, made by Albert Grubauer around 1911.
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Old 26th March 2014, 07:03 PM   #3
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Hello Danny,

The decorated woodcarving and the hair looks familiar.
I have similar examples and as far as I know this is indeed celebes.

Not a tawara as far as I am concerned.



Beautiful spear display Willem! From where are the both with the awry shafts?

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Old 26th March 2014, 08:14 PM   #4
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Hi ,

Willem And Albert thank you for the photo's from the spears , it helps à lot And intresting to see .
I wil adjust the hair back in the right position.

Yes Detlef i,m currious also how point wil look after cleaning but i don,t expect something special . When the point is clean i wil post à Photo of it , in end no iron spike maybe its lost in the years..
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