- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear; naturally shaped wooden stick carved to a point, and decorated with a red pigment. [MOBB [OPS move] 13/8/2018]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1874
- Date collected
- ?By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1910 mm, Width: max 32 mm, Width: max 26 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.19.1 PR Cat other PR nos: 588
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