Hunting spear wooden shaft; leaf-shaped point; overall length 59.5 inches; point 11 inches long. Used to finish off animal being shot with bow and arrow.
Donor:
Bonnie B. Keller and University Appropriation
Collection place:
African Craft Village, Livingstone Museum, Zambia
Verbatim coll. place:
No. Rhodesia; African Craft Village; Livingstone; Balovale and Lozi tribes
Culture or time period:
Balovale
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spears (weapons)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1962
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966) and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)