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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