- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with a wooden shaft and obsidian blade. The blade is socketed into the shaft and fixed in place with string bindings coated in red-coloured resin. [AB [OPS move] 6/7/2018]
- Long description
- Spear with a wooden shaft and obsidian blade. The blade is socketed into the shaft and fixed in place with string bindings coated in red-coloured resin. The resin is incised with lozenges and painted red and white, beneath the blade there are cowrie shells set into the resin. [AB [OPS move] 6/7/2018]
- 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 Cowrie Shell, Material String, Process Painted, Process Chip Carved, Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 32 mm, Width: max 57 mm, Length: max 1709 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1900.55.464
1900.55.464
Spear with a wooden shaft and obsidian blade. The blade is socketed into the shaft and fixed in place with string bindings coated in red-coloured resin. [AB [OPS move] 6/7/2018]
1900.55.464
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