Dance spear

Museum number:

11-42748

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Alternate number:

28 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.3562

Description:

Spear; wood; 12 sections of 4 bone barbs, attached by fiber wrapping; 11 alternating sections of red and yellow plaited fiber and incised and limed design. 147.5 cm.

Donor:

Caroline Mytinger

Collection place:

Bougainville Island, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Islands Region

Collector:

Caroline Mytinger

Materials:

Bone (material) and Wood (plant material)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Plaited weaving

Function:

1.1 Hunting and Fishing

Accession date:

July 22, 1980

Department:

Oceania

Dimensions:

length 147.5 centimeters