M0003724: Obsidian blade

Photograph of a German print publication showing an illustration of an blade made from obsidian, from the Pacific Ocean (South Seas), used as the tip of a lance.

28 November 1933

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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