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Object Number
97-23-70/55162
Display Title
Shark's tooth spear
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Spear, wood shaft, sharks teeth, four sides, bound with fiber
Classification
- Spear
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Kiribati
Materials
Wood, Fiber, Shark tooth
Dimensions
Overall: 343 x 3.6 x 3.6 cm (135 1/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
97-23-70/55162
Provenance
Owner
Boston Museum
Donor
Heirs of Moses Kimball
(1897)
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