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1897.65.3

Pointed stick. Dark wood, one end is carved to a point and the stick tapers at the other end. [FB 14/11/2013]


1897.65.3

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pointed stick. Dark wood, one end is carved to a point and the stick tapers at the other end. [FB 14/11/2013]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1897
Date collected
By 1897
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1897
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length: max 1073 mm, Diameter: max 11 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1897.65.3 Other numbers: 348
Research and responses

According to the stock book of dealer William Downing Webster, this object was purchased by him from ‘Umlauff, Hamburg’ on 15th March 1897 and sold to the ‘Oxford University Museum’ on 5th April 1897. Johann Friedrich Gustav Umlauff founded an ethnographic dealership in Hamburg which operated from 1868 to 1974. The business records are now in the Völkerkundemuseum in Hamburg. [JMC 16/01/2024]

Search terms: Weapon, Spear