| Object Number | 2003-63-52 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Liberia |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Metal | Wood |
| Description | Spear wth a leaf-shaped, socketed blade with an elongated tip bent slightly to the side. The blade has a wide, medial ridge with darkened, unpolished metal along either side. The shank has two longitudinal sections of zigzag designs. The wooden spear shaft is wrapped with thick coils of copper-colored metal wire and shorter coils of similar, bronze-colored metal. The butt end terminates in a wooden point where a ferrule would attach (now missing). |
| Length | 116 cm |
| Width | 7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1994.X.9920 - Other Number |
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