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Object Number
18-20-70/D1132
Display Title
Spear, ceremonial
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Spear, wood shaft, red cotton bands, fiber wrapped, shells, bone head
Classification
- Spear
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Papua New Guinea
/
<State>
/
New Britain
Dimensions
Overall: 245 x 3.8 x 3.8 cm (96 7/16 x 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
18-20-70/D1132, (98718), 1280, (291)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18-20-70/D1130 | Spear |
Spear
|
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| |
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Staff
|
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| |
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Spear
|
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| |
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Spear
|
Oceania
| |
| 18-20-70/D1133 | Spear, ceremonial |
Spear
|
New Britain
| |
| 18-12-30/F158 | Spears |
Spear
|
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| |
| 91-6-70/50630.1 | Spears |
Spear
|
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| |
| 47-54-70/2480 | Spear, with single barb of wood, two bands of plait in red and yellow + |
Spear
|
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| |
| 04-42-70/64021 | Spear |
Spear
|
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| |
| 48-56-70/3081 | Plaited wooden spear with sting rays - handle sawed off |
Spear
|
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| |
| 47-54-70/2477 | Spear with barbs made from phalanges of flying fox |
Spear
|
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| |
| 2016.14.75 | Ceremonial spear |
Spear
|
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|