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: Ea7574

: World Cultures

: Weapon

: Hunting Object

: Palmwood spear with barbs. Rounded tapering shaft. At base of head, a carved figure, with red and yellow cane or leaf weaving either side. Bone barbs graduated at the end, long in middle and short at the base. Held in place with cane or leaf binding covered in something of a reddish hue.

: Solomon Islands, Oceania / Melanesia, Pacific

: Solomon Islands, Oceania / Melanesia, Pacific

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