IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158346
accession number:	O.38-1879

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Very large straight steel double edged waisted blade with a very prominent medial rib on the lower half, changing to a medial ridge in a point of diamond section on the upper half. The tang is visible at the end of a fragment of the original bamboo haft. The end of the haft is reinforced with a ferrule of copper alloy, chiselled to attach it to the haft at the top, decorated with a scalloped edge and two sets of incised lines at the bottom. On the ferrule is a loose ring of copper alloy
title:	spearhead

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see documentation Elgood 2004)


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Robert Taylor
creditline: Given by Robert Taylor, MA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158346





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1460 - 1500
creation date earliest:	1460
creation date latest:	1500
culture:	15th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Blade Length
units: cm
value: 40.1

dimension: Blade Width Max
units: cm
value: 10.9

dimension: Overall Length
units: cm
value: 61.5

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 1190



CITATIONS
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Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865
List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879
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