Spear

Museum number:

10-538a

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Accession number:

Acc.408

Description:

Long spear, with blade covered with a sheath; bamboo shaft; ferrule of bands of nito; plain and plaited, Sheath on shelf 78C - (put together when spears brought from Hearst)

Donor:

Charles Ravenscroft Greenleaf

Collection place:

Philippines

Culture or time period:

Mindanao

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Plaited weaving

Function:

1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control

Accession date:

1911

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

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