Spear
29-50-488
From: New Guinea | Sepik River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-488 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Sepik River |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Cane (plant) | Vegetable Fiber |
| Description | Multiple-pointed. 7 pointed wooden splints, very long, inserted in short section of bamboo, surrounding an eighth splint now broken. Probably the bamboo originally formed the foreshaft and there was a solid wooden shaft. Three basketwork rings at insertion; several others surround the splints. |
| Length | 256.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | ? - Other Number |
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