Spear
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Steel, Wood
Measurements
1625 mm (Length)36 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303709
Summary
A Somali spear with long spearhead decorated with a checkerboard pattern; wooden shaft. Lord Egerton number 493ZD. Collected in 1937. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.