Long barbed wooden spear with short section of cane at tip of handle

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Object Number 48-56-70/3113

Display Title Long barbed wooden spear with short section of cane at tip of handle

Descriptions

Inventory Description Spear, cylindrical shaft, fiber wrapped foreshaft, shells, glass beads, red reed

Classification

Spear

Department Ethnographic

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania

Additional Geographic Terms Melanesia

Materials Wood, Fiber, Shell, Pigment, Glass, Reed

Dimensions Overall: 270 x 2.6 x 2.7 cm (106 5/16 x 1 x 1 1/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 48-56-70/3113

Provenance

Collector Dr. Harry Clark (1917 - 1948)

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