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Object Number 00-8-70/55309
Display Title Spear with 4 points
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spear, carved wood shaft, fiber wrapped, four elongated carved prongs
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji
Dimensions Overall: 383 x 23 x 12.6 cm (150 13/16 x 9 1/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 00-8-70/55309
Provenance
Collector Alexander Agassiz (1899-1900)
Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth (1899-1900)
Collector U.S. Fish Commission Ship Albatross Expedition (1899-1900)
Donor Donated by Alexander Agassiz (1900)

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