- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear carved from wood with ornamental barbs carved on head. Beneath the barbs there are carved points. There is a local repair at the butt. [AB [OPS move] 21/8/2018]
- Long description
- Spear carved from wood with ornamental barbs carved on head. Beneath the barbs there are carved points. There is a local repair at the butt with plant fibre and resin. [AB [OPS move] 21/8/2018]
- 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 Plant Fibre, Material Resin Plant, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Repaired (local)
- Dimensions
- Length: max 2340 mm, Diameter: max 32 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.19.52 PR Cat other PR nos: 629c
1884.19.52
Spear carved from wood with ornamental barbs carved on head. Beneath the barbs there are carved points. There is a local repair at the butt. [AB [OPS move] 21/8/2018]
1884.19.52
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.