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1935.20.1

Spear with socketed iron blade and weighted butt. Leaf shaped ogee blade. [DV [OPS move] 5/7/2018]

1935.20.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Spear with socketed iron blade and weighted butt. Leaf shaped ogee blade. [DV [OPS move] 5/7/2018]
Cultural groups
Bedawi
Beni Amer
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1934
Date collected
1933 - 1934
Acquisition information
Donated: 1935
Materials and processes
Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Socketed, Process Carved, Process Forged (Metal)
Dimensions
Width: max 36 mm, Length: max 1890 mm, Depth: max 24 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1935.20.1 Other numbers: 274
Research and responses

According to the donor cards, this Miss Powell-Cotton is Diana Powell-Cotton, not Miss A. Powell-Cotton. [CW 13/4/2000] According to the Ethnologue Online, Bedawi is the term that should be used. Hadendoa (or Hadendowa) is a dialect of Bedawi found on the Red Sea in Sudan. “Bedawi” is the people’s own name, with “Beni-Amer” used as a name for some of the people. [CW 13/4/2000]

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