Spear

Museum number:
10-524
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.387
Description:
Spear head carrying 5 double barbs; palmwood shaft; plaited split bamboo grip; 76 1/2” L.
Donor:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University)
Collection place:
Mountain Province, Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon Island
Verbatim coll. place:
Philippine Islands; Luzon, Mountain Province; Ifugao
Culture or time period:
Ifugao
Collector:
H. Otley Beyer and Tuginai Pait
Materials:
Bamboo (material), Palm wood, and Steel (alloy)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Plaited weaving
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
1910
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1964-1965 #22: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (October 26, 1964–October 26, 1964)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Spear, accession number 10-524, described as Spear head carrying 5 double barbs; palmwood shaft; plaited split bamboo grip; 76 1/2” L.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Spear, accession number 10-524, described as Spear head carrying 5 double barbs; palmwood shaft; plaited split bamboo grip; 76 1/2” L.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 10-524, described as Spear head carrying 5 double barbs; palmwood shaft; plaited split bamboo grip; 76 1/2” L.

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