Spear
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Steel, Wood
Measurements
1421 mm (Length)35 mm (W)1445 mm (Length)37 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303704.1
Summary
One of two Berberah spears with barbed arrow shaped spearheads and upward pointing barbs; wooden shafts. Lord Egerton number 291 O. Collected in Somalia in 1933. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.