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Object Number 48-56-70/3080
Display Title Long plaited wooden spear with sting rays and long handle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spear, cylindrical wood shaft, fiber tuft rings, carved, pigment, sting ray barb
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Solomon islands / <State> / Bougainville Island
Dimensions Overall: 322 x 2.8 x 2.8 cm (126 3/4 x 1 1/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 48-56-70/3080
Provenance
Collector Dr. Harry Clark (1917 - 1948)

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