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Bronze mao-spear (a pair) Warring States Period (475-- 221 BC) Height 28.3 cm Unearthed from a Warring States storage pit at Hongwa Village, Zhihe Township, Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province, 1991 By courtesy of Pengzhou Municipai Museum, Sichuan Province The two pieces of short-hilted mao-spear with sharp cutting edges are similar in form and decoration, the roughly diamond-shaped blade id finely decorated with stylized cicada plus heart on one side and stylized cicada plus hand on the other. |