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Throwing stick or lance of service berry wood with antler tip for ring game.
Throwing stick or lance of service berry wood with antler tip for ring game.
Object Number 15-36-10/86480
Display Title Throwing stick or lance of service berry wood with antler tip for ring game.
Descriptions
Object Description Throwing stick or lance of service berry wood with antler tip for ring game.
Inventory Description Spear, carved handle, 4 leather pieces, fringed, painted bone point
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1915
Culture
  • Thompson
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Materials Wood, Leather, Pigment, Bone
Dimensions Overall: 182.4 x 1.2 cm (71 13/16 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 15-36-10/86480
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Seller James A. Teit (?)
Collector James A. Teit

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