The Prince and the Plunder

A book on how Britain took one boy and piles of treasures from Ethiopia

Spear *

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What: Spear given by Secretary of State for India, Sir Stafford Henry Northcote

Where: The British Museum, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG

The catalogue entry reads: “Spear made of iron, wood, wire (brass).”

Detail
Museum number: Af1868,1230.18
Height: 179 cm
Acquisition name: Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 
Acquisition date: 1868

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