- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear barbed with a leaf-shaped piece of wood bound to the tip and covered with resin; there are 15 black rings painted onto the shaft below the barb. [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 Resin Plant, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Carved, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 2437 mm, Width: max 25 mm, Depth: max 21 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.19.12 PR Cat other PR nos: 599
- Research and responses
Information from John Stanton of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia 13.11.96 - comment as 1884.19.11, that is: 'Pitch' ie Xanthorrhea sp (Grass tree) only found in southwest of WA and South Australia. Black rings typical of this region and applied as liquid Xan. resin. Lateral microlyths unique to this region [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
1884.19.12
Spear barbed with a leaf-shaped piece of wood bound to the tip and covered with resin; there are 15 black rings painted onto the shaft below the barb. [MOBB [OPS move] 13/8/2018]
1884.19.12
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