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1945.6.111

Spear with socketed leaf-shaped blade and shank secured with thick iron wire, and a ribbon of iron bound at the butt. [AFS [OPS move] 5/7/2018]

1945.6.111

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Collection type
Object
Description
Spear with socketed leaf-shaped blade and shank secured with thick iron wire, and a ribbon of iron bound at the butt. [AFS [OPS move] 5/7/2018]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1895
Date collected
1885 or 1895
Acquisition information
Bequeathed: 1945
Materials and processes
Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Twisted, Process Socketed, Process Bound
Dimensions
Length: max 1806 mm, Width: max 26 mm, Height: max 33 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1945.6.111
Research and responses

Other items in the Hubert Berkeley collection from Sudan were collected by his brother Thomas Mowbray Martin Berkeley [AP 29/04/2014]

Search terms: Weapon, Spear

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