FMNH 104817.nosub[2]

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | 22-28 | Country Togo, West Africa. | Locality North Togo | People Moba Stock | Name Spear, with iron foreshaft 24 cm. long, and small barbed poisoned spearhead (Tied to foreshaft by string fastened to brass ring). Pointed iron spike on rear end. Length of spear 170 cm. To protect spear head a leather sheath is drawn | Collection Otto Finsch. Cap. Thierry, Col. | Notes over the head and tied with string with couple of cowries on end. | Price [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 104817 1-2 | 491 | Acc. 941
Catalog Number: 104817.nosub[2]
Description: spear and sheath for spear
Materials: metal; iron, metal; brass, leather, string, shell; cowrie
Cultural Attribution: Moba
Locality: Africa, Togo
Accession Number: [941] O. Finsch (Purchase)
Accession Year: 1905
Other Numbers: 491
Country: Togo
Collector/Source: Otto Finsch, Captain Gaston Thierry
EMu IRN: 1005114
GUID: dbe2c920-7ecf-4647-aabc-7b8043afe19a

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