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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.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Speer
Dimensions
Length: 2132.0 mm
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0683

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1900
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    25.09.1902
    who
    Brandeis, Eugen - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Marshall Islands (location/origin)
    Micronesia (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    who
    Brandeis, Antonie - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania
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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