Spear metal head

Museum number:
5-2914
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1719
Description:
Cane spear; Bara; cane shaft; hand foreged, socketed iron point; twisted iron around butt end.
Donor:
Audrey Smedley Plotnicov
Collection place:
Du Village, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Af.; Nigeria; Birom; Du Village
Culture or time period:
Birom
Collector:
Audrey Smedley Plotnicov
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spearheads (projectile points) and Spearheads (staff weapon components)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spear metal head, accession number 5-2914, described as Cane spear; Bara; cane shaft; hand foreged, socketed iron point; twisted iron around butt end.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear metal head, accession number 5-2914, described as Cane spear; Bara; cane shaft; hand foreged, socketed iron point; twisted iron around butt end.

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