- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with elongated leaf shaped blade, ornamented with red hair. [ASh [OPS move] 22/8/2018]
- Long description
- Spear with elongated leaf shaped blade with basal cusped points near to the base of the head. The upper part of the wooden shaft is ornamented with a club shaped mass of clipped, dyed red dogs hair. The end of the shaft has a socketed, butt spike. [ASh [OPS move] 22/8/2018]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1929
- Date collected
- July 1929
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1929
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Iron Metal, Material Dog Hair Animal, Material Pigment, Process Dyed, Process Socketed, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 82 mm, Length: max 2134 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1923.85.826
1923.85.826
Spear with elongated leaf shaped blade, ornamented with red hair. [ASh [OPS move] 22/8/2018]
1923.85.826
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