Spear

2003-63-51

From: Liberia

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-63-51
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Liberia
Section African
Materials Metal | Leather | Wood
Description

Spear with a long, thin blade that flattens sharply toward the edges. The upper and lower ends of the wooden spear shaft are wrapped with light-colored leather. The bottoms of these wrappings have sleeves of woven, greenish leather while the upper ends are woven in mixed light and dark leather or brown leather. The center of the shaft is wrapped with brown leather. The butt end terminates in a metal ferrule with four circumferal bands etched above a flared, flattened, fin-like end with ridges and a copper-colored disc affixed toward the bottom.

Length 118 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1994.X.9954 - Other Number

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