- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with thin notched iron spearhead ending in a leaf-shaped blade, which is bound to the shaft with animal hide. [AFS [OPS move] 4/7/2018]
- Cultural groups
- Nguni
- 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 Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Hide Skin, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Forged (Metal)
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1622 mm, Width: max 24 mm, Height: max 22 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.19.176 PR Cat other PR nos: 782
- Research and responses
See Chris Spring, 1993: Chapter 8[AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
1884.19.176
Spear with thin notched iron spearhead ending in a leaf-shaped blade, which is bound to the shaft with animal hide. [AFS [OPS move] 4/7/2018]
1884.19.176
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