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Object Number 48-56-70/3079
Display Title Long plaited wooden spear with sting rays and long handle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spear, wood shaft, plaited fiber bands, fiber tufted band, bone barbs, pigment
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Solomon islands / <State> / Bougainville Island
Dimensions Overall: 330.5 x 3 x 3 cm (130 1/8 x 1 3/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 48-56-70/3079
Provenance
Collector Dr. Harry Clark (1917 - 1948)

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