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Image Not Available for Wooden spear with carved section and wrapped areas
Wooden spear with carved section and wrapped areas
Image Not Available for Wooden spear with carved section and wrapped areas
Object Number 2016.26.2
Display Title Wooden spear with carved section and wrapped areas
Descriptions
Object Description Wooden spear, all one piece, carved section near one end; wrapped plant fiber at center, unravelling; two sections of wrapped white cotton string with feather remnants protruding
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Date c. 1960s
Culture
  • Quechua
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Ecuador
Materials Wood , Cotton string , Feather
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of Helen Arnold in Memory of her husband, Wynn Edmund Arnold
Provenance
Collector Wynn Edmund Arnold (1970-1973)
Donor Donated by Helen Arnold (12/21/2016)

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