Spear

2003-63-61

From: Liberia

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-63-61
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Liberia
Section African
Materials Metal | Wood
Description

Spear with a blade that flares out toward the base. The blade has a wide, medial ridge with cross-hatch, diagonal, horizontal, and zigzag lines etched from the base through the middle. The wooden spear shaft is completely wrapped in metal with circumferal bands of cross-hatch, diagonal, horizontal, and zigzag designs at the upper and lower ends. Thick, copper-colored wire is wrapped around lower end of the shaft above the ferrule. The butt end terminates in an elongated, flattened, metal ferrule that widens toward the beginning and end with a narrow middle section.

Length 118 cm
Width 4 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1993.X.1280 - Other Number

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