- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with barbed iron head decorated with incised lines and wooden shaft with spirally bound iron rings near the butt end. [PH [OPS move] 6/7/2018]
- Cultural groups
- Hausa
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1930
- Date collected
- By 1930
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1930
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Forged (Metal), Process Socketed, Process Incised, Process Decorated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 26 mm, Length: max 1826 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1930.55.1
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