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Object Number
97-23-70/55163
Display Title
Shark's tooth spear
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Spear, wood, fiber wrapped, bound shaft, curved barbs, edged with sharks teeth
Classification
- Spear
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Kiribati
Materials
Wood, Fiber, Shark tooth
Dimensions
Overall: 368 x 12.5 x 2.8 cm (144 7/8 x 4 15/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
97-23-70/55163
Provenance
Owner
Boston Museum
Donor
Heirs of Moses Kimball
(1897)
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