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Object Number 973-11-70/5305.4
Display Title Bamboo spear
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spear, bamboo shaft, blunt piece of bamboo at tip, no point
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea
Additional Geographic Terms Papua New Guinea, Southern Highland?
Materials Bamboo
Dimensions Overall: 95 x 2.4 x 2.4 cm (37 3/8 x 15/16 x 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 973-11-70/5305.4

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