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Object Number 99-12-70/53388
Display Title Barbed spear
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spear, smooth cylindrical shaft, four-tiered barbed point
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 316.5 x 5.8 x 5.8 cm (124 5/8 x 2 5/16 x 2 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 99-12-70/53388
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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