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Object Number 14-29-70/85748
Display Title Spear
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spear, wood shaft, broken, four-pronged point, twisted fiber tied
Classification
  • Spear
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji
Materials Wood, Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 233.5 x 5.5 x 7 cm (91 15/16 x 2 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 14-29-70/85748
Provenance
Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
Donor Museum of Comparative Zoology (1914)

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