Spear
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Apr 1994
label: Collection Date
content: 1970's
name: label: Collector
content: George C. McGhee
label: Donor Name
content: George C. McGhee
notes: label: Notes
content: DARKENED HEAVY WOOD (PROBABLY BLACK PALM); PIECE OF SHARPENED BAMBOO USED FOR SPEAR POINT WITH TRACES OF BLUE PIGMENT ON ONE SIDE; SPEAR SHAFT IS HEAVILY CARVED IN PLACES AROUND ENTIRE PIECE; THERE ARE TWO CARVED HEADS, ONE AT THE BASE OF THE SPEAR POINT PROTRUDING FROM THE SHAFT AND THE OTHER CARVED HEAD A BIT FURTHER DOWN ALONG THE SHAFT; THE BRAIDED AND WRAPPED CELLULOSE FIBER HAS COME LOOSE AROUND THE SHAFT AND IS DRY AND BRITTLE; SPEAR POINT IS LOOSE.BLACK AND WHITE LABEL SAYS "BOT BOT VIL'
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bot Bot, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 390923
label: USNM Number
content: E426850-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 335 cm