Spear

Museum number:
10-523
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.387
Description:
Spear; steel head and steel pointed base; long blade w/ flaring flanges plaited rattan and buri band ferrule; 78 1/2” L. Steel base lost.
Donor:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University)
Collection place:
Mountain Province, Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon Island
Culture or time period:
Ifugao
Collector:
H. Otley Beyer and Tuginai Pait
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Plaited weaving
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
1910
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Spear, accession number 10-523, described as Spear; steel head and steel pointed base; long blade w/ flaring flanges plaited rattan and buri band ferrule; 78 1/2” L. Steel base lost.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Spear, accession number 10-523, described as Spear; steel head and steel pointed base; long blade w/ flaring flanges plaited rattan and buri band ferrule; 78 1/2” L. Steel base lost.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 10-523, described as Spear; steel head and steel pointed base; long blade w/ flaring flanges plaited rattan and buri band ferrule; 78 1/2” L. Steel base lost.

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