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Object Number 35-111-60/1602
Display Title Spear cover
Descriptions
Object Description Case of wood for spear (no. 60/1601): Spear cover
Inventory Description Unclassified tool, carved wood, cruciform shape, hole drilled in one end
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Date 18th century
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Japan / <State> / <County> / <City> / Yokohama?
Materials Wood, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 28.3 x 20.4 x 4.2 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 35-111-60/1602
Provenance
Collector Mrs. John S. Paine (ca. 1890)
Collector Mr. John S. Paine (ca. 1890)
Donor John Adams Paine (1935)

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