Object Number | 2003-63-49 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Liberia |
Section | African |
Materials | Metal | Wood |
Description | Spear wth a leaf-shaped, socketed blade with an elongated tip. The blade has a wide, medial ridge with darkened, unpolished metal along either side. The wooden spear shaft is wrapped with thick coils of copper-colored metal wire at the upper and lower ends and thin, gray wire around the center. The butt end terminates in a metal ferrule with a pinched and pointed end. |
Length | 122 cm |
Width | 8 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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