Spear

2003-63-54

From: Liberia

Curatorial Section: African

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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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