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Spear without blade or butt spike. Wooden shaft pointed at each end. The shaft is decorated with two sets of mainly very short tufted red hair, with a band of black hair near the centre of each, the sets separated by a space for a handgrip. The shaft below the lower set has a chunk of longer red hair tied on with string.
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