- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with wooden shaft and with three small barbed iron prongs bound to the shaft with strips of plant fibre. [RH [OPS move] 18/7/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Nicobar Islands
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Edward Horace Man
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1878
- Date collected
- ?Prior to 1878
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Iron Metal, Material Plant Fibre, Process Carved, Process Forged (Metal), Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 2464 mm, Width: max 73 mm, Depth: max 25 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.19.315 PR no.: 163/ 11935
- Associated publications
- JAI 1878: 466 'Mîân lôë fish spear having three points' [Taken from the 'List of Andamanese and Nicobarese implements ornaments etc presented to Major General Lane Fox by EH Man esq and thus described by Mr Man 18th September 1877'] See also JAI 1882: 275 [EH Man]. Indian Antiquary, Feb. 1895, 'Catalogue of Nicobarese objects', p. 44 '18 (m) Miàn-loe (lit. three-pronged spear) 19 (m) Miàn-foan lit. four-(in a row) pronged spear. 20 (m) Miàn-kanòp lit. four-(in a circle) pronged spear. And 21 (m) Miàn-tanai lit. five-pronged spear. Used for spearing fish by day and by torchlight at night. Sometimes also used for spearing flying-foxes, when hanging asleep from a branch: for this purpose a long bamboo pole is substituted for the ordinary shaft, so as to be able to reach the bat by a mere thrust.'[AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Search terms: Weapon, Fishing, Spear, Fishing Accessory