- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with long tapering wooden shaft and two harwood barbed points bound to the shaft with plaited plant fibre. [RH [OPS move] 16/7/2018]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1862
- Date collected
- ?By 1862
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Material Sennit Coconut Seed Fibre Plant, Process Carved, Process Plaited, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 2734 mm, Width: max 48 mm, Depth: max 29 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.19.286 PR Cat other PR nos: 847
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