Object Number | 2003-63-54 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Liberia |
Section | African |
Materials | Metal | Leather | Wood |
Description | Spear with a blade the flares out toward the base. The blade has a wide, medial ridge with two scrolls at the base. The wooden shaft is wrapped at the upper end with black leather. The lower end has a section of thickened wood with a wide, bronze-colored, metal ring above the ferrule. The center of the shaft is covered with a basketry sleeve of light and dark fibers. The ferrule has circumferal bands etched above a flared, flattened, fin-like end with a copper-colored disc affixed toward the bottom. |
Length | 109.5 cm |
Width | 6.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1994.X.9925 - Other Number |
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