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50-49-1479

From: Philippine Islands | Northern Luzon

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 50-49-1479
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Negrito (uncertain)
Provenience Philippine Islands | Northern Luzon
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Iron | Feather | Gum | Pigment
Description

Iron point; similar to -1477; median ridge simple; one edge of blade shouldered (probably chipped); socketed. Shaft; orange wood, feathering like -1478 (2 feathers black and blue one side, tan the other) third feather black and tan; nock square-bottomed,. 72cm deep.; gum carved with several rings behind trailing edge, followed by diagonal checkerboard pattern to c. 1.2-2cm. from nocked end; gum whittled down to flatten the nock end.

Length 76 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Misses Elizabeth H. Metcalf and Sarah S. Metcalf, 1950
Other Number 61 - Other Number

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