- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with clusters of cane barbs on foreshaft, bound and fixed with gum in six bands, carved with ?stylised human head. [DV [OPS move] 20/6/2018]
- Geographical reference
- West Papua
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1867
- Date collected
- 1867
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Resin Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Material Cane Plant, Process Carved, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 2698 mm, Width: max 32 mm, Depth: max 30 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.19.43 PR Cat other PR nos: 629
1884.19.43
Spear with clusters of cane barbs on foreshaft, bound and fixed with gum in six bands, carved with ?stylised human head. [DV [OPS move] 20/6/2018]
1884.19.43
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