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