- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with large obsidian blade set into a large, incised resin socket on a wooden shaft. [JMC [OPS move] 22/8/2018]
- Long description
- Spear with large obsidian blade set into a large resin socket on a wooden shaft. The resin is coloured red and black and carved with patterns of zigzags, crosses, diagonal bands and plain rectangular fields. There are fragments of shell set into the top of the socket. [JMC [OPS move] 22/8/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1874
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Obsidian Stone, Material Resin Plant, Material Pigment, Process Flaked, Process Carved, Process Inlaid, Process Painted, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1517 mm, Width: max 60 mm, Depth: max 34 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.19.32
1884.19.32
Spear with large obsidian blade set into a large, incised resin socket on a wooden shaft. [JMC [OPS move] 22/8/2018]
1884.19.32
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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