Point

Museum number:

5-297

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Accession number:

Acc.100BE

Description:

Steel-pointed, barbed dart or arrow.

Donor:

Charles R. Snellgrove

Collection place:

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Verbatim coll. place:

Pigmy tribe, Congo region

Culture or time period:

Pygmy

Materials:

Steel (alloy)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Projectile points

Function:

1.1 Hunting and Fishing

Accession date:

January 14, 1918

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)

Loans:

S1961-1962 #86: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 8, 1962–May 8, 1962), S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1966-1967 #106: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 9, 1967–May 9, 1967), S1967-1968 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 15, 1968–February 15, 1968), and S1971-1972 #4: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 12, 1971–July 26, 1971)

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