Spear

Museum number:
11-1308
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Accession number:
Acc.371
Description:
Slender spear. Carved foreshaft with band of twilled work; wooden barbs in whorls.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Melanesia
Verbatim coll. place:
Melanesia
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spears (weapons)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
May 1909
Department:
Oceania
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 11-1308, described as Slender spear. Carved foreshaft with band of twilled work; wooden barbs in whorls.

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