Spear

2003-63-50

From: Liberia

Curatorial Section: African

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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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