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1929.84.4

Spear with wooden shaft, leather amentum and iron spud-butt. The head is socketed with a leaf-shaped blade & decoration of incised lines. [PH [OPS move] 6/7/2018]

1929.84.4

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Collection type
Object
Description
Spear with wooden shaft, leather amentum and iron spud-butt. The head is socketed with a leaf-shaped blade & decoration of incised lines. [PH [OPS move] 6/7/2018]
Geographical reference
Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria
Kano or Sokoto
Person
Field collector Kano & Sokoto Expedition
PRM source James Thomas Hooper
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1903
Date collected
By 1929
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1929
Materials and processes
Material Iron Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Socketed
Dimensions
Length: max 1737 mm, Depth: max 17 mm, Width: max 37 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1929.84.4
Research and responses

An amentum is a spearthrower permanently attached to the spear [AP 31/7/2000]

Search terms: Weapon, Spear, Spear-thrower