Pig Spear With 3 Heads "Rantjan"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Dec 1902
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Handle of peeled sapling, worked out into a smaller caliber at the end, on which fits a sharpened cane point. They are sometimes smeared with arrow poison, and are terribly effective. The word 'rantjan' refers to spints placed in the ground (as weapons of defense)."
label: Notes
content: Has a tag on it that reads "Jakuns of the Rumpin River. Nat[ive] name: So'ong. Ranjan which are tied to stakes and placed in gaps or low places in the fences around the gardens. The pigs leaping over get impaled."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Malaysia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Jakun (Orang Hulu)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 040243
label: USNM Number
content: E219928-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear