| Object Number | 2003-32-333 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Easter Island |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Obsidian |
| Description | Flaked obsidian spear point with tang and crescentic cutting edge. "Used by warriors (matatoa) in warfare." Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. Such points seem to have appeared on Easter Island after A.D. 1600 during a period of prolonged internal strife. Based on native testimony and ethnographic specimens, they functioned as spear points hafted to wooden shafts of variable length (Jesse D. Jennings, The Prehistory of Polynesia, pp. 149-150). |
| Length | 9.2 cm |
| Width | 7.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1993.X.244 - Other Number | CIVIC1993.X.244 - Other Number |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.