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spear

A long spear with two obsidian-tipped points. The bifurcated neck of the points is decorated with red, white and black. The shaft of the spear is undecorated.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
spears (weapons)
Dimensions
General: 11.5 × 5.5 × 231.5 cm
Material/Technique
Obsidian; wood; parinarium putty; plant fibre; seed capsule hewn; carved; painted
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D07482
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D07482

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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