Spear-Head (Sinan?)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Mar 1961
name: label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John O. La Gorce
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Straight blade tapering from socket to point. Fluted in center, decorated at base with engraved birds. Engraved brass? socket, bird and flower pattern. Socket cracking near blade."
label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: 19th C. Persian spearhead with a chiseled iron and gold overlaid socket. Blade is of typical Persian shape and is of watered steel, wootz.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Iran, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Persian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 229198
label: USNM Number
content: E398860-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spearhead