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50-49-1477

From: Philippine Islands | Northern Luzon

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 50-49-1477
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Negrito (uncertain)
Provenience Philippine Islands | Northern Luzon
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Metal | Iron | Feather | Gum | Pigment
Description

Point iron; median ridge; offset; socketed over point with black gum; shaft: roughly rounded, nearly straight shaft of orange-brown wood; remnants of feathering, 3 haft-feathers, bound by filament spiralling through feather-blade; gum coated, diagonal lines in gum in c. 2.5 cm. between trailing edge and nock end. Spiral wrap of plant cuticle for c. 1.5cm in front of gum; nock end hacked off unevenly.

Length 69 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Misses Elizabeth H. Metcalf and Sarah S. Metcalf, 1950
Other Number 61 - Other Number

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