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Object Number 99-12-70/53382
Display Title Shark's tooth spear
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spear, curved wood shaft, loosely wrapped fiber with shark's teeth and shell
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Kiribati / Gilbert Islands
Dimensions Overall: 433 x 3.6 x 3.8 cm (170 1/2 x 1 7/16 x 1 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 99-12-70/53382
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor L. Cushing Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton

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