Spear

Museum number:
18-1669
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21180001669
Accession number:
Acc.4655
Description:
Fish spear, wood; bamboo fore-shaft; five pointed palmwood (?) tines lashed together and inserted at open distal end of foreshaft; tines lashed together with bamboo strips near base. Length 171.5 cm.
Donor:
Wyn Sargent
Collection place:
Borneo, Indonesia
Culture or time period:
Indonesian
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spears (weapons)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
October 4, 1994
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 18-1669, described as Fish spear, wood; bamboo fore-shaft; five pointed palmwood (?) tines lashed together and inserted at open distal end of foreshaft; tines lashed together with bamboo strips near base. Length 171.5 cm.

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