Metadata: Maasai spear
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Maasai (actif 1500), attributable to | User
- Title:
- Maasai spear
- Date:
- 1800 (?) - before 1893
- Period | Style | Movement:
- Époque contemporaine
- Inventory Number:
- 1898-013/003
- Collection:
- Non european collections
- Domain:
- Arms
- Africa
- Designation:
- Spear
- Material | Technique:
- Iron; Copper; Wood
- Measurements:
- H x L x P: 198.5 x 2.3 x 8.4 cm
- Description:
- The iron consists of a socket, and the leaf-shaped tip tapering from the socket, where it has its greatest width (8.7 cm) is 64 cm long. The wood, visible only over a length of 45 cm, ends in a very massive iron foot; above the iron foot a copper ring. In all similar to numbers 2 and 24. The tip is leaf-shaped with a very pronounced midrib. The wood, visible over a length of 17.8 cm, ends in a square-shaped foot. - Descriptive inventory by Nicolas Van Werveke of the Spring ethnographic collection. N.B.: this is a faithful transcription of Van Werveke's inventory, the terms used in 1898 have not been modified, even those whose use is considered critical today.
- Location:
- Depot
- Acquisition method:
- Donation
- Acquisition date:
- 1898
- Copyright:
-
Work: Public Domain
Image(s): CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) | Tom Lucas / MNAHA
Metadata: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
- Photographer:
- Tom Lucas
