- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with wooden shaft and obsidian blade, the blade has become detached. [AB [OPS move] 5/7/2018]
- Long description
- Spear with wooden shaft and obsidian blade, the blade has become detached. The shaft is socketed where the blade would have attached, this is bound with string and coated in resin. Decorated with red, white and black pigment and cowrie shells set in to the resin. The blade has been physically numbered and packed with the shaft. [AB [OPS move] 5/7/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Admiralty Islands Bismarck Archipelago
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1900
- Date collected
- By 1900
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1900
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Obsidian Stone, Material Resin Plant, Material Cowrie Shell, Process Painted, Process Bound, Process Chip Carved, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 32 mm, Width: max 48 mm, Length: max 1635 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1900.55.460
1900.55.460
Spear with wooden shaft and obsidian blade, the blade has become detached. [AB [OPS move] 5/7/2018]
1900.55.460
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