- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with thick wooden shaft covered with bands of animal fur, hide and strips of plant fibre, with a barbed leaf-shaped iron head and iron butt spike. [RH [OPS move] 10/7/2018]
- Long description
- Spear with thick wooden shaft covered with three bands of different animal fur, strip of hide and plaited, red white and black, plant fibre. There is a barbed leaf-shaped iron head with stamped crescents, and and iron butt spike at the end of the shaft. [RH [OPS move] 10/7/2018]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Circa 1900
- Date collected
- circa 1900
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 09/1991
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Animal Fur Skin, Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Plant Fibre, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Pigment, Process Stamped, Process Bound, Process Plaited, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 42 mm, Width: max 79 mm, Length: max 1567 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1991.26.2
1991.26.2
Spear with thick wooden shaft covered with bands of animal fur, hide and strips of plant fibre, with a barbed leaf-shaped iron head and iron butt spike. [RH [OPS move] 10/7/2018]
1991.26.2
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