- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with bamboo shaft and obsidian blade. The blade is attached to the shaft by a decorated section of resin, carved with triangles and painted with red and white pigment. [RH [OPS move] 6/7/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Admiralty Islands Bismarck Archipelago
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1911
- Date collected
- By 1911
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1911
- Materials and processes
- Material Obsidian Stone, Material Bamboo Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Material Resin Plant, Material Pigment, Process Chip Carved, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Bound, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Width: max 35 mm, Depth: max 31 mm, Length: max 1530 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1911.64.45
1911.64.45
Spear with bamboo shaft and obsidian blade. The blade is attached to the shaft by a decorated section of resin, carved with triangles and painted with red and white pigment. [RH [OPS move] 6/7/2018]
1911.64.45
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