- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with bamboo shaft and small obsidian blade. The blade is attached to the shaft with decorated and painted red, black and white wood and resin. [RH [OPS move] 6/7/2018]
- Long description
- Spear with bamboo shaft and small obsidian blade. The blade is attached to the shaft with decorated and painted red, black and white wood and resin. Decorative seeds are attached to the resin. The resin and bound plant fibre form a red and black triangles just below the blade. [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 Resin Plant, Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Plant Fibre, Material Coix Seed Plant, Process Chip Carved, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Width: max 43 mm, Depth: max 31 mm, Length: max 1613 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1911.65.32
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