Object Number | 2003-63-50 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Liberia |
Section | African |
Materials | Metal | Leather | Wood | Plant Fiber |
Description | Spear with a long, thin blade that flares slightly toward the base. The blade has a wide, medial ridge with a zigzag design toward the base end. The upper and lower ends of the wooden spear shaft are wrapped with light-colored leather and small, woven sleeves of light and dark basketry and leather, the lower of which has short leather fringe hanging. The center of the shaft is wrapped with a natural-color leather sleeve with woven leather caps at either end, all of which has black painted lines throughout. The butt end terminates in a short, metal ferrule with a flared, fin-like end. |
Length | 108 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1994.X.9953 - Other Number |
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