Cleveland Museum of Art

Barbed Spear

Date

before 1922

Medium

Metal

Culture

Philippines, Northern Luzon, Ifugao, likely Lepanto area

Department

Oceania

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This forged iron spearhead features a long central blade and multiple paired barbs tapering in a tree-like silhouette. Its stepped barbed form aligns with spears documented in Eastern Lepanto and Northern Nueva Vizcaya. This object most likely originated among the Igorot people, but similar spearheads are documented across the Philippine archipelago.

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