Wooden spear - 4 barbs below point; swelling at base of point holds + – Objects

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Object Number 40-12-70/1859

Display Title Wooden spear - 4 barbs below point; swelling at base of point holds +

Descriptions

Inventory Description Spear, cylindrical wood shaft, four-barbed wood point, incised, yellow fiber

Classification

Spear

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Nasigo
Rotoke

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania / Solomon islands / <State> / Bougainville Island

Materials Wood, Fiber, Pigment

Dimensions Overall: 209 x 3 x 3 cm (82 5/16 x 1 3/16 x 1 3/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 40-12-70/1859

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