- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Harpoon with line. [ASh [OPS move] 20/6/2017]
- Long description
- Iron harpoon head with one barb roughly a third of the way down the shaft. The harpoon head is attached to a lone length of twisted plant fibre rope. [ASh [OPS move] 20/6/2017]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1953
- Date collected
- 1951 - 1953
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1953
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Rope, Material Plant Fibre, Process Twisted, Process Bound, Process Cast
- Dimensions
- Width 379 mm coiled, Length 392 mm coiled, Depth 91 mm coiled
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1953.8.14 Other numbers: 1
Search terms: Weapon, Fishing, Hunting, Harpoon-head, Hunting accessory, Fishing Accessory
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