- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with wooden shaft, socketed metal head and bound metal butt. The foreshaft is incised and has a leaf shaped blade. [DV [OPS move] 5/7/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Darfur El Fasher
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 07/1916
- Date collected
- July 1916?
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1952
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Iron Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Socketed, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1458 mm, Width: max 32 mm, Depth: max 17 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1952.5.69
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