Ethnic Knife Bone And Shark Tooth Papua

It is a knife, a rare weapon of war, called Tautau Kautete it is a "charged" object which comes from the country where the shaman dictates his law it is tiger shark teeth pierced and tied around a flat whale bone Just like the first traces found of an identical object in New Guinea made 7000 years ago. The bone is abundantly carved, a bird's head adorned with a pair of burgeau eyes (mother-of-pearl from burgeau) This animal is part of the pantheon of the ancient bestiary of many civilizations, from the Inuit, the Vikings, the Papuans and the Maoris A pronounced brown patina contrasts all the hollows. The Maori, like other Polynesians, believed that objects could have a life of their own. They were capable of absorbing mana and were not just items used for combat, but items with spiritual power. The engravings found on weapons are not decoration, they give power to these objects. Mata-Kautete are very rare, short, saw-shaped Maori weapons made by attaching shark teeth to a carved wooden or whale bone handle