Fish Spear

50-49-1414

From: Philippine Islands | Northern Luzon

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Native Name Sapinit
Object Number 50-49-1414
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Apayao
Provenience Philippine Islands | Northern Luzon
Locus Apayao
Section Oceanian
Materials Metal | Wood | Peel | Pigment
Description

Roughly rounded shaft of hard, heavy wood with numerous black fiber-bundles in red matrix; butt end cut off square, hollowed out and filled with mud; 16 braided rings in browns, red, black and three points of iron wire, around base of these some fine twined thread interwoven among the points.

Length 102.3 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Misses Elizabeth H. Metcalf and Sarah S. Metcalf, 1950
Other Number 72 - Other Number

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