Object Number | 2003-63-60 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Liberia |
Section | African |
Materials | Metal | Leather | Wood | Plant Fiber |
Description | Spear with a blade that flares out toward the base. The blade has a wide, medial ridge with two scrolls at the base. The wooden shaft is wrapped with light-colored leather with three small, woven sleeves of light-colored basketry fibers and dark leather. The ferrule has a flared, flattened, fin-like end. |
Length | 112.5 cm |
Width | 4.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1993.X.1278 - Other Number |
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