- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with cane shaft and wooden foreshaft covered with bark, sharpened to a point and flattened. [RH [OPS move] 30/7/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Northern Territory Wild Man River
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1900
- Date collected
- By 1900
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1900
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Cane Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 14 mm, Length: max 1380 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1900.55.695
- Research and responses
This spear was studied by Harry Allen, University of Auckland, on 22 October 2013. He noted that this type of spear was used with a goose necked spearthrower. It is a lightweight, fast spear used for fighting. The wood may be poisonous. They are economical to make and fire. It looks as if they (1900.55.34-.36, 1900.55.691-700) were made by the same maker. Men made their own weapons. [MJD 22/10/2013]
1900.55.695
Spear with cane shaft and wooden foreshaft covered with bark, sharpened to a point and flattened. [RH [OPS move] 30/7/2018]
1900.55.695
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