Spear
- Museum number:
- 5-16933
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016933
- Accession number:
- Acc.4715
- Description:
- Masai spear; steel head with 2 sets of dual barbs. embedded in end of dark wood shaft and secured with and iron ring.
- Donor:
- H. Nona Hungate
- Collection place:
- Kenya
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa, Kenya, Masai
- Culture or time period:
- Maasai people
- Collector:
- R. E. Hungate
- Collection date:
- 1960s-1970s
- Materials:
- Steel (alloy) and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Spears (weapons)
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- November 30, 2000
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- length 158.5 centimeters
- Images:
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