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[AC] Mead Art Museum at Amherst College; [HC] Hampshire College Art Gallery;
[HD] Historic Deerfield; [MH] Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; [MH SK] The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College; [SC] Smith College Museum of Art; [UM] University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst

 


Maker(s):Unknown
Title:Spears
Type:Armament; Fishing/Trapping/Hunting
Place Made:Asia; Central Asia; India
Accession Number:  MH SK L.A.1.4
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College

Description:
Two hunting spears from the north of India. Heads long, thin, and narrow, with three heavy ridges, long tapering points, scalloped in the middle and then tapering to the socket. Sharpened on both edges with double bevel. Long, thin, round shafts of a dark, hard, twisted wood. Presented by Mr. Lansing Hammond, who received them from the Prof. Boltwood Collection.
Weights: 8 ozs
Heads: 18 3/8" x 1 1/2" - 17 7/8" x 1 3/8"
Shafts: 38 3/8" x 13/32"

Tags:
spears; weapons

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