- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with a bamboo shaft and obsidian blade. The blade is attached to the shaft with red-coloured resin. [AB [OPS move] 6/7/2018]
- Long description
- Spear with a bamboo shaft and obsidian blade. The blade is attached to the shaft with red-coloured resin, this is incised with lozenge designs and painted red and white. Below the blade there are cowrie shells set into the resin. [AB [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 Resin Plant, Material Pigment, Material Cowrie Shell, Process Chip Carved, Process Incised, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Width: max 64 mm, Length: max 1567 mm, Depth: max 37 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1911.65.23
1911.65.23
Spear with a bamboo shaft and obsidian blade. The blade is attached to the shaft with red-coloured resin. [AB [OPS move] 6/7/2018]
1911.65.23
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