Spear

2003-63-57

From: Liberia

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-63-57
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Liberia
Section African
Materials Metal | Wood
Description

Spear with a wide, socketed blade angled toward the base. The blade has a thin, medial ridge. The wooden spear shaft has thin, longitudinal lines incised along its length. A short coil of thick, copper-colored metal wire is wrapped below the blade socket. Other sections of the shaft are wrapped with alternating coils of thick, copper-colored metal wire and bronze-colored metal wire. Between two of these sections is a raised section of wood carved with four sections of lattice design. The butt end terminates in a short ferrule that expands to a wide disc halfway down and has a flat, circular end.

Length 148.5 cm
Width 7 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1993.X.1524 - Other Number

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