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Spear - bamboo shaft with long slender barbed wooden foreshaft
Spear - bamboo shaft with long slender barbed wooden foreshaft
Object Number 36-105-70/474
Display Title Spear - bamboo shaft with long slender barbed wooden foreshaft
Descriptions
Object Description Spear - bamboo shaft with long slender barbed wooden foreshaft; +
Inventory Description Arrow, bamboo shaft, tapered, barbed wood point, fiber wrapped
Classification
  • Arrow
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Nor-Papua
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Guinea
Additional Geographic Terms Mandated Territory; Kaup, on coast; Sepik River, 40 mi. west of
Materials Bamboo, Wood, Plant fiber
Dimensions Overall: 146 x 1.2 x 1.3 cm (57 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 36-105-70/474

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