Explosive shell

Object status:

Deaccessioned

Museum number:

2-68556

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21020068556

Accession number:

Acc.4152

Description:

Japanese armor-piercing shell, found at Aitape, New Guinea. Probably just an explosive shell.

Donor:

Virgil E. Callahan

Collection place:

Aitape, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea

Culture or time period:

Japanese

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control

Accession date:

September 15, 1986

Department:

Nonnative US and Canada (except California)

Comment:

Removed by U.C. Bomb Squad June 4, 1989.

Loans:

S1987-1988 #31: Doe Library (UC Berkeley) (February 8, 1988–April 15, 1988)