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Spear, Massai

The iron, ridged blade is attached to a shaft of approximately the same length via a slotted socket. The counterpart is a long, pointed iron spear shoe with a square cross-section, also attached to a socket. This type of spear is typical of the warriors of the Maasai tribe. Provenance: "Central Africa". The object is part of the estate of the Chief Surgeon General Georg Wilke (*1859 Dresden +1938 Rochlitz), which initially went to the teaching collection of the Rochlitz secondary school after his death and was transferred to the Rochlitz Castle collection in the 1960s.

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Staatliche Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten Sachsen. Schloss Rochlitz
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Cultural attribution
Massai
Object type
weapons
Dimensions
H x W: 7.1 cm x 188.5 cm, D: 0.9 cm
Material/Technique
Iron, wood; forged
Current location
State palaces, castles and gardens of Saxony gGmbH, Rochlitz Castle
Inventory number
Roc_E_VI_000096

Provenance and sources

when
1875-1900
where
Central Africa
who
Maasai

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