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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.

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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Cataloguing data

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

Provenance and sources

when
1900 - 1910

when
29.11.1911

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

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