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Barbed spear
Object Number 99-12-70/53387.1
Display Title Barbed spear
Descriptions
Inventory Description Carved wood spear, long barbed point, shaft tapers to blunt point, blackened
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 183.6 x 2.3 x 1.4 cm (72 5/16 x 7/8 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53387
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor L. Cushing Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton

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