- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with long cusped leaf blade type, shaft overlaid with conical overlapping rings of red, black and white hair [ASh [OPS move] 22/8/2018]
- Long description
- Spear with long, cusped leaf blade, made of iron. The wooden shaft is overlaid with conical overlapping rings of red, black and white hair, half the upper part of overlay is red, with a big club-shaped terminal clipped mass of hair with central black bands. Terminates in a pointed, iron butt spike. [ASh [OPS move] 22/8/2018]
- Cultural groups
- Angami Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1924
- Date collected
- 1924
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1925 Donated: 1928
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Animal Hair, Material Pigment, Material Wood Plant, Process Dyed, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Socketed
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 76 mm, Length: max 2285 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1928.69.938
1928.69.938
Spear with long cusped leaf blade type, shaft overlaid with conical overlapping rings of red, black and white hair [ASh [OPS move] 22/8/2018]
1928.69.938
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