- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with wooden shaft and socketed leaf-shaped iron blade. [RH [OPS move] 9/7/2018]
- Cultural groups
- Fang
- 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 Iron Metal, Process Carved, Process Forged (Metal), Process Socketed
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1411 mm, Width: max 65 mm, Depth: max 15 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.19.106 PR Cat other PR nos: 728
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