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Object Number 09-3-30/75894
Display Title Arrows, bone barbs
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spears, bone points, wrapped on wood and reed shaft, split feather ends
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Arawakan
  • Piro
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / <State> / <County> / <City> / Piro
Additional Geographic Terms Puruo River, Headwaters of the
Dimensions Overall: 155 x 3 x 1.2 cm (61 x 1 3/16 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 75894

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