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Object Number
48-56-70/3081
Display Title
Plaited wooden spear with sting rays - handle sawed off
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Spear, wood shaft, plaited red, yellow fiber bands, carved, pigement, bone barbs
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, Bone, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 200 x 3.2 x 3 cm (78 3/4 x 1 1/4 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
48-56-70/3081
Provenance
Collector
Dr. Harry Clark
(1917 - 1948)
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