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Object Number
64-18-70/4544
Display Title
Crooked fighting spear (ab dege)
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Spear, carved wood, cylindrical, tapered to point one end
Classification
- Spear
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Dani
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
New Guinea
Oceania / Indonesia
Oceania / Indonesia
Additional Geographic Terms
Grand Valley of the Baliem River; Kutelu Area
Materials
Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 299 x 2.4 x 2.4 cm (117 11/16 x 15/16 x 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
64-18-70/4544
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Spear
|
New Guinea
Indonesia | |
| 64-18-70/4539 | Small darkened fighting spear (ab dege) |
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|
Indonesia
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| 64-18-70/4537 | Fighting spear of dark wood with whitened woven band (al dege) |
Spear
|
New Guinea
Indonesia | |
| 64-18-70/4536 | Dark spear with white woven band (al dege) |
Spear
|
New Guinea
Indonesia | |
| 63-29-70/4106 | Unfinished wooden bandless fighting spear |
Spear
|
Indonesia
New Guinea | |
| 25-46-70/D2428.2 | Fighting spears |
Spear
|
Drysdale River
Western Australia | |
| 25-46-70/D2428.1 | Fighting spears |
Spear
|
Western Australia
Drysdale River | |
| 23-46-70/D1720.3 | Fighting spear heads, magundoo |
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|
Western Australia
Kimberley | |
| 32-68-70/D4074 | Fighting spear |
Spear
|
Boogardie
| |
| 63-29-70/4154 | Short, light-colored fighting spear |
Spear
|
Indonesia
New Guinea | |
|
| 25-46-70/D2428.3 | Fighting spears |
Spear
|
Western Australia
Drysdale River | |
| 64-18-70/4538 | Dark wood fighting spear with white band and bamboo butt stop |
Spear
|
New Guinea
Indonesia |