Sujet
A fish hook of human bone with double inner barb
Légende
A fish hook of human bone with double inner barb, To make a fish hook of an enemy warriors bone would have been a deliberate and especially marked insult designed to provoke an enemy group into battle. The Ngai Tahu tribe introduced cannibalism into South Island in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. New Zealand. Maori. 19th c Banks Peninsula.
Crédit
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman
Notre référence
UMG12A27_441
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
30,3Mo (966,5Ko) / 31,9cm x 23,8cm / 3768 x 2808 (300dpi)