| Object Number | 2003-63-59 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Liberia |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Metal | Wood | Cloth |
| Description | Spear with a leaf-shaped, socketed blade with an elongated tip. The blade has a wide, medial ridge with darkened, unpolished metal along either side. The upper end of the faceted shank is etched with a herringbone pattern. The short, wooden spear shaft is wrapped with alternating coils of wide, copper-colored metal wire and bronze-colored metal wire. The butt end terminates in an extremely long, pointed ferrule, which is faceted but otherwise undecorated. |
| Length | 195 cm |
| Width | 8.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1993.X.1526 - Other Number |
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