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Spear with wooden tips, which could be used both in combat and for ceremonial purposes. Spears of this kind were also manufactured for sale to collectors.
The object was collected by Lieutenant Paul Werber from Freiburg, 1st Officer in the Imperial Navy who sailed the South Seas for a total of two years on the S.M.S. Cormoran and donated about 100 objects from various regions of Oceania to the museum.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Speer
Dimensions
Length: 3220.0 mm
Material/Technique
Resins, Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0672

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1900 - 1910
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    29.11.1911
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Manus (location/origin)
    Admiralty Islands (location/origin)
    Bismarck Archipelago (location/origin)
    Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
    Melanesia (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    who
    Werber, Paul - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED

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