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Spear, carved prongs
Object Number 51-32-70/3265
Display Title Spear, carved prongs
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spear, carved wood shaft, two barbed wood prongs, fiber wrapped, resin
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Northern Territory
Materials Wood, Resin, Plant fiber
Dimensions Overall: 242 x 3.2 x 2.3 cm (95 1/4 x 1 1/4 x 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 51-32-70/3265
Provenance
Expedition Peabody Museum South Australian Expedition (6/26/1951)
Collector N.B. Tindale (1951)
Collector Dr. Joseph B. Birdsell (1951)

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