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Object Number 46-52-10/27799
Display Title Ceremonial buffalo spear
Descriptions
Inventory Description Staff, worked bone spear, wrapped leather and mink? shaft, eagle feathers
Classification
  • Staff
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Stoney
  • Assiniboine
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada
Additional Geographic Terms Canada, Western
Dimensions Overall: 108.3 x 18.6 x 5.3 cm (42 5/8 x 7 5/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 46-52-10/27799
Provenance
Provenance Dr. Carleton Stevens Coon (1946)

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