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1936.16.1.1

Spear with wooden shaft, spud butt, socketed head and leaf-socketed iron blade. [PH [OPS move] 9/7/2018]


1936.16.1.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Spear with wooden shaft, spud butt, socketed head and leaf-socketed iron blade. [PH [OPS move] 9/7/2018]
Geographical reference
Afmadow
Cultural groups
Somali
Daarood
Ogaden
Person
Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton
PRM source Diana Powell-Cotton
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1935
Date collected
1934 - 1935
Acquisition information
Donated: 1936
Materials and processes
Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Socketed, Process Forged (Metal)
Dimensions
Width: max 54 mm, Depth: max 21 mm, Length: max 1402 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1936.16.1.1 Other numbers: 784
Research and responses

According to the Ethnologue Online, Daarood is a large clan family in northeast Somalia and the Ogaadeen region of Ethiopia, extreme southern Somalia and northeast Kenya which speaks several different dialects. Ogaadeen is the largest clan within the Daarood clan family, living in eastern Ethiopia, extreme southern Somalia and northeast Kenya. [CW 10/5/2000]

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