Spear or lance

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Object Number 14-29-70/85749

Display Title Spear or lance

Descriptions

Inventory Description Spear, cylindrical wood shaft, tapered point, squared handle, three spiraled rows of perforated shark's teeth attached with fiber cordage

Classification

Spear

Department Ethnographic

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania / Kiribati

Materials Wood , Fiber , Shark tooth

Dimensions Overall: 96.5 × 3.8 × 3.4 cm (38 × 1 1/2 × 1 5/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 85749

Provenance

Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth

Donor Museum of Comparative Zoology (1914)

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72-20-70/6874	Weapon armed with sharks teeth	Lance	Kiribati
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