- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with wooden shaft, tapering to a fine point with a wide band of painted plant fibre. The shaft terminates at the butt with a ?cassowary bird long bone. [RH [OPS move] 13/7/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Bismarck Archipelago New Britain
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1879
- Date collected
- ?Prior to 1879
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Material Cassowary Bone Bird, Process Carved, Process Sawn, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 2512 mm, Width: max 58 mm, Depth: max 30 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.61.2 PR no.: 6/ 10010
1884.61.2
Spear with wooden shaft, tapering to a fine point with a wide band of painted plant fibre. The shaft terminates at the butt with a ?cassowary bird long bone. [RH [OPS move] 13/7/2018]
1884.61.2
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