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Object Number 51-32-70/3500
Display Title Spear, wood leaf-shape point
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spear, cylindrical, carved shaft, splits, tapered to flattened point, fiber band
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Northern Territory
Additional Geographic Terms Central
Materials Wood, Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 250 x 2 x 2 cm (98 7/16 x 13/16 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 51-32-70/3500, A(71)805, Cent. Australia
Provenance
Expedition Peabody Museum South Australian Expedition (6/26/1951)
Collector N.B. Tindale (1951)
Collector Dr. Joseph B. Birdsell (1951)

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