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Javelin

Spear with leaf-shaped iron blade, wooden stick and iron counterpart. Described in the original catalogue as a "throwing spear of the Maasai". Partially covered with blue protective lacquer.

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Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg
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Cultural attribution
Massai
Object type
spear
Dimensions
H: 1,7 cm; B: 3,2 cm; L: 132,5 cm
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg
Inventory number
LMNM_0904

Provenance and sources

when
before April 1897

where
Africa, East Africa, Tanzania
who
Langheld, Wilhelm - Former Possessors

when
1897
where
State Museum of Nature and Man Oldenburg
who
Wilhelm Langheld

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