Spear

2003-63-52

From: Liberia

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-63-52
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Liberia
Section African
Materials Metal | Wood
Description

Spear wth a leaf-shaped, socketed blade with an elongated tip bent slightly to the side. The blade has a wide, medial ridge with darkened, unpolished metal along either side. The shank has two longitudinal sections of zigzag designs. The wooden spear shaft is wrapped with thick coils of copper-colored metal wire and shorter coils of similar, bronze-colored metal. The butt end terminates in a wooden point where a ferrule would attach (now missing).

Length 116 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 1994.X.9920 - Other Number

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