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Spear
Object Number 54-16-70/3595.1
Display Title Spear
Descriptions
Object Description Spear, Aboriginal, throwing spear
Inventory Description Spear, carved wood stick, blunt ends, fiber wrapped at one end
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Western Australia
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 104.5 x 1.1 x 1.1 cm (41 1/8 x 7/16 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 54-16-70/3595.1
Provenance
Collector Dr. Seth Fitchet (1910)
Donor Donated by Mrs. Seth Fitchet (3/26/1954)

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Spear
54-16-70/3595.2 Spear
Spear
Western Australia
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Spear
Eastern Lepanto
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Throwing spears, points sometimes poisoned by leaving in dead animals +
08-36-70/74215.6 Throwing spears, points sometimes poisoned by leaving in dead animals +
Spear
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Eastern Lepanto
Throwing spears, points sometimes poisoned by leaving in dead animals +
08-36-70/74215.2 Throwing spears, points sometimes poisoned by leaving in dead animals +
Spear
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Eastern Lepanto
Throwing spears, points sometimes poisoned by leaving in dead animals +
08-36-70/74215.1 Throwing spears, points sometimes poisoned by leaving in dead animals +
Spear
Eastern Lepanto
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Throwing spears, with bamboo points, the points are often poisoned by +
08-36-70/74214.2 Throwing spears, with bamboo points, the points are often poisoned by +
Spear
Eastern Lepanto
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Spears with hard wood barbs, generally used for throwing
08-36-70/74213.1 Spears with hard wood barbs, generally used for throwing
Spear
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Eastern Lepanto
Throwing spears, with bamboo points, the points are often poisoned by +
08-36-70/74214.3 Throwing spears, with bamboo points, the points are often poisoned by +
Spear
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Eastern Lepanto
Media Restricted
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Spear
Assam
Throwing spears, with bamboo points, the points are often poisoned by +
08-36-70/74214.5 Throwing spears, with bamboo points, the points are often poisoned by +
Spear
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Eastern Lepanto
Throwing spears, points sometimes poisoned by leaving in dead animals +
08-36-70/74215.5 Throwing spears, points sometimes poisoned by leaving in dead animals +
Spear
Eastern Lepanto
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Barbed wooden spears
30-54-70/D3484.5 Barbed wooden spears
Spear
Northern Territory
Arnhem Land