Spear

Museum number:
5-2991
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1717
Description:
Arrow; pishe; cane shaft, unfeathered; nock-end wrapped with fiber and pitched; hand forged iron point attached with pitch; leaf-shaped barbed point; poisoned; one barb missing.
Donor:
Leonard Plotnicov and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Af.; Nigeria; Tiv; Yandev
Culture or time period:
Tiv
Collector:
Leonard Plotnicov
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spears (weapons)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 5-2991, described as Arrow; pishe; cane shaft, unfeathered; nock-end wrapped with fiber and pitched; hand forged iron point attached with pitch; leaf-shaped barbed point; poisoned; one barb missing.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 5-2991, described as Arrow; pishe; cane shaft, unfeathered; nock-end wrapped with fiber and pitched; hand forged iron point attached with pitch; leaf-shaped barbed point; poisoned; one barb missing.

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