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Description: | Bone point, Ecuador, S. Ame...
Spear with a wooden shaft and an attached bone spear point with four detached decorative feathers. They were initially held in place at the head of the spear with vegetable fibre binding. The wooden shaft has carved detailing towards the bone point consisting of inverted triangles intersperced with two groups of three smooth bands. The bone point and a label are attached with sellotape.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 6.190
caption: Detail view of head of Horniman Museum object no 6.190
caption: Detail view of shaft of Horniman Museum object no 6.190
caption: Detail view of label of Horniman Museum object no 6.190
caption: Detail view of tip of Horniman Museum object no 6.190
caption: Detail view of feathers of Horniman Museum object no 6.190 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | wood spears (weapons: missiles & projectors) bone vegetable fibre feather War- and Peace-making | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-65295 | Go to resource |
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