The long fighting spears from the Schouten Islands and the coast to their south often had ancestral figures or faces carved into them near the tip where the bamboo blade would have been lashed. This is a set of three such ancestral figures salvaged from the tops of old broken spears. The figures are great tiny works of Coastal Sepik art with pierced noses, oversized heads, slanted eyes and brooding overhanging brows. The pieces are at least 100 years old, are roughly 3" in height on shaft fragments that range from 7 ½" to 11" in height. sold