Spear thrower, long, flat and narrow, coloured red. [El.B 21/08/2007]

Collection type: Object
Description: Spear thrower, long, flat and narrow, coloured red. [El.B 21/08/2007]
Long description: Spear thrower, long, flat and narrow, coloured red. Long flat narrow wooden implement tapering to a peg coloured red. Ovate-triangular handle shaped off with central groove bound by fibrous cord. Hook (missing) was bound in to fibrous cord and resin [NM]
Geographical reference: Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia; Northern Territory
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 Pigment, Material Plant Fibre, Material Resin Plant, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Painted
Dimensions: Length: max 1048 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.19.342 PR Cat other PR nos: 204
Research and responses: See B.J. Cundy 'Formal Variations in Australian Spear and Spear Thrower Technology' BAR International Series, 546. 1989 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

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