Javelin | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Javelin
This spear has been carved with four rows of barbs pointing steeply backwards. Probably used for hunting fish in the reef.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Speer
Dimensions
Länge: 2132.0 mm
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0683
Provenance and sources
when
before 1900
when
25.09.1902
where
Marshall Islands (location/origin)
Micronesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Provenance
Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) /Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit)
This object probably belongs to the collection of Antonie and Eugen Brandeis, even if it cannot be precisely identified. It may be spear no. 90 from the 1st consignment of April 1900: "Speer m. Widerhaken. Mari. Ironwood" (object list, SAF D.Sm 35/1).
It has the old inventory number 1368 in the list and was not inventoried until 1902 (presumably at a later date).
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