| Object Number | 2003-63-46 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Liberia |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Metal | Leather | Cloth | Wood |
| Description | Spear with a tanged blade that flares out toward the tang. The blade has a pronounced medial ridge with a longitudinal flute on either side and an scroll design at the base of each flute. The blade is secured to the wooden spear shaft with a wrapping of brown and blue cloth and a sewn leather sleeve over the cloth. The butt end of the shaft terminates in a long, metal ferrule secured near the top with three nails, one of which has a copper-colored, metal disc over top. The end of the ferrule flares outward into a flattened, fin-like shape with ridges. |
| Length | 126.5 cm |
| Width | 6.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1994.X.9965 - Other Number |
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