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1939.7.106.2

Hide sheath for spear 1939.7.106.1 [RTS 22/7/2005].

1939.7.106.2

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Collection type
Object
Description
Hide sheath for spear 1939.7.106.1 [RTS 22/7/2005].
Long description
Brown hide sheath (Pantone 463C), thought to belong with spear 1939.7.106.1. This has been made from 2 rectangular strips whose surfaces have been cleaned of all hair. Each strip has been folded in half, creating a recess on the inside edge that would fit snugly around the edges of the blade. At the top, the ends have been brought together and bound round with a length of drawn iron wire. This has one end pushed through a hole in the hide, has been wrapped several times around the body, and then bent over and hammered down at the other end. At the other end, the hide strips curve slightly, where their ends have been perforated with 2 holes each, with 2 narrow hide thongs passing through the holes to serve as ties. The sheath is nearly complete, but both thongs look to have broken off at their ends. The iron is in good condition and currently a pale metallic gray colour (Pantone 420C). It has a weight of 26.9 grams and is 332 mm long, 56.5 mm wide, and 8.3 mm thick; the tip has a diameter of 8.3 by 7.8 mm, and the wire binding covers an area 43 mm long [RTS 22/7/2005].
Geographical reference
South Sudan
Africa > Eastern Africa > South Sudan
Eastern Equatoria Torit Lafon
Cultural groups
Jur Luo
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1939
Date collected
By 1939
Acquisition information
Donated: 07/1939, uncertain Found unentered: 07/2005
Materials and processes
Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Iron Metal, Process Perforated, Process Drawn, Process Bound, Process Wound
Dimensions
Weight 26.7 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1939.7.106.2
Research and responses

For similar spear sheaths, see 1936.10.9, 1936.10.24-25, all collected by Evans-Pritchard from the Anuak. 1939.7.109 is a related style of Acholi sheath, bearing similar iron binding around its pointed end [RTS 22/7/2005]

Search terms: Weapon, Sheath

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