Spear

Museum number:
5-3402a-c
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21053402a@2dc
Alternate number:
18 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1771
Description:
Spear; wooden shaft; socketed, leaf-shaped metal blade; tapered metal point on butt end; overall length: 97'' (246.38 cm). Purchased from Karamoja Local African Government.
Donor:
John Desmond Clark and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Africa
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Uganda; Karamojong tribe
Collector:
John Desmond Clark
Collection date:
February 1963
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spears (weapons)
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 5-3402a-c, described as Spear; wooden shaft; socketed, leaf-shaped metal blade; tapered metal point on butt end; overall length: 97'' (246.38 cm). Purchased from Karamoja Local African Government.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 5-3402a-c, described as Spear; wooden shaft; socketed, leaf-shaped metal blade; tapered metal point on butt end; overall length: 97'' (246.38 cm). Purchased from Karamoja Local African Government.

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