- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with a bone point, carved barbed wooden foreshaft and bamboo shaft. The nodes of the bamboo have been smoothed. [AB [OPS move] 21/8/2018]
- Long description
- Spear with a bone point, carved barbed wooden foreshaft and bamboo shaft. The nodes of the bamboo have been smoothed. The point and foreshaft are bound with cord and plant fibre. [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: Before 1874
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Bamboo Plant, Material Animal Bone, Material String, Process Carved, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 2605 mm, Width: max 31 mm, Depth: max 25 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.19.54
1884.19.54
Spear with a bone point, carved barbed wooden foreshaft and bamboo shaft. The nodes of the bamboo have been smoothed. [AB [OPS move] 21/8/2018]
1884.19.54
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