Spear

Museum number:
5-6658
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050006658
Accession number:
Acc.2307
Description:
Spear; wooden shaft with black painted incised designs; iron blade 1 end, worked in 2 sections; lower an open oval, upper an elongated laurel leaf; other end capped with iron; l. 140 cm.
Donor:
Mary Jean Aerni and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Rwanda
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Uganda; Rwanda; (Wa) Tutsi
Culture or time period:
Wa Tutsi
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spears (weapons)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
1967
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 5-6658, described as Spear; wooden shaft with black painted incised designs; iron blade 1 end, worked in 2 sections; lower an open oval, upper an elongated laurel leaf; other end capped with iron; l. 140 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 5-6658, described as Spear; wooden shaft with black painted incised designs; iron blade 1 end, worked in 2 sections; lower an open oval, upper an elongated laurel leaf; other end capped with iron; l. 140 cm.

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