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Object Number 25-46-70/D2428.1
Display Title Fighting spears
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spear, carved wood, cylindrical, tapered to point both ends
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Western Australia / Kimberley / <City> / Drysdale River
Oceania / Australia / Western Australia
Additional Geographic Terms Drysdale River
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 293 x 2 x 2 cm (115 3/8 x 13/16 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 25-46-70/D2428.1
Provenance
Intermediary Mrs. Walter Badenach (1924)
Seller Unknown (1925)

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