Wooden Spear With Antelope Horn
name: label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "STRAIGHT TAPERED ANTELOPE (ORYX) HORN, WITH NATURAL WIDELY SPACED SPIRAL GROOVES AROUND THE LOWER PART. MOUNTED ON A ONE PIECE, LATHE-TURNED WOODEN SHAFT THAT HAS TWO ALSO TURNED WOODEN RINGS AROUND IT (ONE IS BROKEN). THIS KIND OF FINISHING MORE LIKELY FROM INDIA THAN AFRICA. *REF: STURE LAGERCRANTZ: CONTRIBUTION TO THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF AFRICA, STUDIA ETHNOGRAPHICA UPSALIENSIA, NO.1, PP.169-73. SPEARS OF THIS TYPE ARE ONLY KNOWN IN AFRICA FROM THE NILOTIC TRIBES OF E. SUDAN, AND WITH THE OTHER FEATURES IT APPEARS MORE LIKELY TO BE FROM INDIA. REF. CAT. NO. 290499."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: India, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E14287-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear