Author: Alex Santoso / Source: Neatorama
A human bone dagger (top) and a cassowary bone dagger (bottom). Image: Hood Museum of Art/Dartmouth College, Dominy NJ et al. Royal Society Open Science, 2018.
Forget your puny pocket knives – the people of Papua New Guinea know that if you want your friends and foes to take you seriously, you need a bone dagger.
Bone daggers are often carved with decorative patterns and used for hunting, fighting and for ceremonial purposes, as well as to signify social status – and even though most are made from the thigh bones of cassowary birds, the Sepik tribesmen of Papua New Guinea…
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