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Object Number
25-46-70/D2428.2
Display Title
Fighting spears
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Spear, roughly carved wood, long, cylindrical, tapered points both ends
Classification
- Spear
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Australia
/
Western Australia
Oceania / Australia / Western Australia / Kimberley / <City> / Drysdale River
Oceania / Australia / Western Australia / Kimberley / <City> / Drysdale River
Additional Geographic Terms
Drysdale River
Materials
Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 290 x 1.9 x 1.9 cm (114 3/16 x 3/4 x 3/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
25-46-70/D2428.2
Provenance
Intermediary
Mrs. Walter Badenach
(1924)
Seller
Unknown
(1925)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-46-70/D2428.3 | Fighting spears |
Spear
|
Western Australia
Drysdale River | |
| 25-46-70/D2428.1 | Fighting spears |
Spear
|
Western Australia
Drysdale River | |
| 25-46-70/D2428.4 | Fighting spears |
Spear
|
Western Australia
Drysdale River | |
| 96-25-70/49463.3 | Spears |
Spear
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 64-18-70/4538 | Dark wood fighting spear with white band and bamboo butt stop |
Spear
|
New Guinea
Indonesia | |
| 91-6-70/50608.2 | Spears of single piece of wood |
Spear
|
New South Wales
| |
| 27-56-70/D2848.4 | Spears |
Spear
|
Eiland River
Mapi River | |
|
| 27-56-70/D2848.3 | Spears |
Spear
|
Eiland River
Mapi River | |
|
| 27-56-70/D2848.2 | Spears |
Spear
|
Mapi River
Eiland River | |
|
| 27-56-70/D2848.1 | Spears |
Spear
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 23-46-70/D1720.3 | Fighting spear heads, magundoo |
Spear
|
Western Australia
Kimberley | |
| 64-18-70/4541 | Small fighting spear of light wood (ab dege) |
Spear
|
New Guinea
Indonesia |