spear

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Object Type
Museum number: Am,VAN.89
Description: Spear made of bone, wood.
Production ethnic group: Made by: Namakizat (?); Made by: Northwest Coast Peoples
Production date: 1790s
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: North America
Materials: bone; wood
Dimensions: Height: 82.25 centimetres; Width: 3.50 centimetres; Depth: 3.50 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Gunther 1972 / Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America: As Seen by the Early Explorers and Fur Traders during the Last Decades of the Eighteenth Century (p.114, app.1:347); King 1994 / Vancouver's Ethnography: A preliminary description of five inventories from the voyage of 1791-95
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1891
Acquisition notes: Collected on George Vancouver's voyage to Hawaii and the NW coast of North America 1791-1795.
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am,VAN.89
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Am1891C25.89 (old CDMS no.)

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