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Object Number
96-25-70/49472.3
Display Title
Composite spear, single barb
Descriptions
Object Description
Spear
Inventory Description
Spear, wood shaft tapered to barbed point, resin wrapped, white pigment, cracked
Classification
- Spear
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Australia
/
Queensland
Materials
Wood, Resin, Pigment, Plant fiber, Reed
Dimensions
Overall: 282 × 1.6 × 1.6 cm (111 × 5/8 × 5/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
96-25-70/49472.3
Provenance
Collector
Alexander Agassiz
(1896)
Donor
Donated by
Alexander Agassiz
(1896)
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