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: Ea7576

: World Cultures

: Weapon

: Hunting Object

: Palmwood spear with bone barbs. Rounded tapering shaft with blunted end. Leaf ? ruff at base of head, figure carved above it inlaid with lime. Split can binding (?), broken. Head; bone barbs held in place with cane? binding coated in something. Short barbs at pointed tip, long barbs in centre of head.

: Solomon Islands, Oceania / Melanesia, Pacific

: Solomon Islands, Oceania / Melanesia, Pacific

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