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Object Number 51-32-70/3267
Display Title Spear, multiple carved barbs
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spear, carved wood, cylindrical, tapered to points, barbed one end, painted
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Northern Territory
Materials Wood, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 292 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm (114 15/16 x 9/16 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 51-32-70/3267; Northern Territory/Aust.
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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