Spear
- Museum number:
- 5-16866
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016866
- Alternate number:
- 45 (previous number (donor's original number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4729
- Description:
- wood shaft with hide strip wrapped on bottom end. iron spear point with decorative bands and open, box-like decoration as part of iron point shaft.
- Donor:
- Dorothy Shack
- Collection place:
- Ethiopia
- Verbatim coll. place:
- East Africa, Ethiopia, Gurage
- Culture or time period:
- Gurage
- Collector:
- Dorothy Shack and William A. Shack
- Materials:
- Iron (metal) and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Spears (weapons)
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- May 22, 2002
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- iron point— length 58.5 centimeters and total— length 205 centimeters
- Images:
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