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Object Number 99-15-70/53937
Display Title Fish spear
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spear, multiple wood points bound with braided fiber on wood shaft, fiber grip
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Samoa
Dimensions Overall: 200.9 x 4.7 x 4.6 cm (79 1/8 x 1 7/8 x 1 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 99-15-70/53937
Provenance
Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth

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