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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
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Solomon islands
/
<State>
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Bougainville Island
Materials
Wood, Fiber, Stingray spine, Pigment
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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