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Object Number 14-29-70/85796
Display Title Halberd
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spear, wood shaft, iron blade, flat, elaborate cut with engraving, tassle cord
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
Dimensions Overall: 226 x 29.4 x 4.4 cm (89 x 11 9/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 14-29-70/85796; VAFZA
Provenance
Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
Donor Museum of Comparative Zoology (1914)

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