Dongmo

Dongmo, the bronze spearhead, is, together with donggeom, the bronze dagger, one of the relics representative of Korea's Bronze Age, used as a weapon for stabbing an enemy. In shape it resembles a dagger, but it is made up of two parts, the blade and the socket, the hollow interior of the socket allowing a long wooden shaft to be fitted. Such spearheads were made between the 3rd century BC and the 1st century AD, the later phase of the slender bronze dagger (segyeong donggeom) culture; since they appeared much later than the daggers and survive in far smaller numbers, it is difficult to establish their earliest type. A characteristic feature of Korean bronze spearheads is that the socket is either round or extends without a break into the body, rising as a ridge along it. Lengths range from 20 cm to more than 60 cm, and it is generally held that they were influenced by the state of Yan or the Henan region of China during the Warring States period. They are found mainly at sites of the wooden coffin (neolmudeom) burial tradition, and as an element of the slender bronze dagger culture they were transmitted to Japan, giving rise there to Japan's own distinctive wide-bladed bronze spearheads (gwangbongdongmo).

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Where it is

Region

Busanjin-gu, Busan

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산