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Object Number
40-12-70/1784
Display Title
Wooden spear - numerous barbs bound on point; carved, white-filled, +
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Spear, wood shaft, plaited red, yellow fiber, white pigment, bone barbs
Classification
- Spear
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Terei
- Buin
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Solomon islands
/
<State>
/
Bougainville Island
Materials
Wood, Fiber, Pigment, Bone
Dimensions
Overall: 305.5 x 2.8 x 2.8 cm (120 1/4 x 1 1/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
40-12-70/1784
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