Spear

Museum number:
2-4928a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21024928a@2cb
Alternate number:
113 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
(a) Wood shaft painted blue; copper ferrule on foreshaft; metal ring set into bottom. Willow? (b) Iron head is bent and has proximal end burned. Set into (a).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1876-1898
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spears (weapons)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— length 29.5 centimeters, (b)— length 52.5 centimeters, and (a)— length 1.89 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-4928a,b, described as (a) Wood shaft painted blue; copper ferrule on foreshaft; metal ring set into bottom. Willow? (b) Iron head is bent and has proximal end burned. Set into (a).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-4928a,b, described as (a) Wood shaft painted blue; copper ferrule on foreshaft; metal ring set into bottom. Willow? (b) Iron head is bent and has proximal end burned. Set into (a).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-4928a,b, described as (a) Wood shaft painted blue; copper ferrule on foreshaft; metal ring set into bottom. Willow? (b) Iron head is bent and has proximal end burned. Set into (a).

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