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Spear with a leaf-shaped iron blade and wooden staff. Without an iron counterweight at the end.

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Massai
Object type
spear
Dimensions
H: 1,9 cm; B: 4,5 cm; L: 160,9 cm
Material/Technique
Wood (unspecified)/metal (indeterminate)
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg
Inventory number
LMNM_0898

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before April 1897
  • Change of physical control:
    Unknown type of acquisition
    where
    Africa, East Africa, Tanzania
    who
    Langheld, Wilhelm - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control:
    Donation
    when
    1897
    where
    State Museum of Nature and Man Oldenburg
    who
    Wilhelm Langheld

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CC0 1.0 DEED

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