- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with a reed shaft and three pointed barbed wooden head. The head is bound to the shaft with string. [AB [OPS move] 9/8/2018]
- Long description
- Spear with a reed shaft and three pointed barbed wooden head. The head is bound to the shaft with string. The head is covered with black pigment, the bindings covered in white pigments and the shaft coated with red pigment. [AB [OPS move] 9/8/2018]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1900
- Date collected
- By 1900
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1900
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Reed Plant, Material String, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 37 mm, Width: max 28 mm, Length: max 2367 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1900.55.31 Other numbers: 65 31
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