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Object Number
48-56-70/3098
Display Title
Short spear with sting rays and 3 point tips of human bone - very rare
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Spear, long tapered shaft, multiple variegated bone barbs, fiber bound
Classification
- Spear
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Vanuatu
/
<State>
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Espiritu Santo Island
Oceania / Vanuatu
Oceania / Vanuatu
Dimensions
Overall: 197 x 6 x 6 cm (77 9/16 x 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
48-56-70/3098
Provenance
Collector
Dr. Harry Clark
(1917 - 1948)
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