- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with leaf shaped metal blade socketed onto a wooden shaft. The shaft is dark brown in colour. [AB [OPS move] 13/7/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Maasai
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1917
- Date collected
- 1912-1917
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1944
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Socketed, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 984 mm, Depth: max 23 mm, Width: max 53 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1944.10.1
- Research and responses
It seems there was originally a joint donor of both the Lightbody and Gorringe collections. There is no information in the accession book as to who this may have been. See Additional Accession Book Entry for 1944.10.17 for relevant text regarding this. [MR 7/7/2000]
1944.10.1
Spear with leaf shaped metal blade socketed onto a wooden shaft. The shaft is dark brown in colour. [AB [OPS move] 13/7/2018]
1944.10.1
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