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Object Number 47-72-70/2683
Display Title Wooden spear
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spear, carved wood shaft, multi-barbed point, plaited reed foreshaft
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea
Additional Geographic Terms Sepik, Upper; Wogumas?; Wogamush
Materials Wood, Reed
Dimensions Overall: 266.5 x 4.8 x 4.8 cm (104 15/16 x 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 47-72-70/2683

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