- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with sagittate iron blade with downward barbs. The wooden shaft is ornamented with red and yellow dyed goat's hair. [ASh [OPS move] 24/8/2018]
- Long description
- Spear with sagittate iron blade with downward and out turned barbs above the socket. The wooden shaft is ornamented with red dyed hair in two reel like masses each with a red and yellow basal hair fringe. Each decorated with black and yellow bands of hair in the centre of each ornament. Iron butt spike attached to the end of the wooden shaft. [ASh [OPS move] 24/8/2018]
- Cultural groups
- Angami Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1928
- Date collected
- By 1929
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1929
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Iron Metal, Material Goat Hair Animal, Material Pigment, Material Hair, Process Dyed, Process Decorated, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 71 mm, Width: max 80 mm, Length: max 2102 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1923.85.861
1923.85.861
Spear with sagittate iron blade with downward barbs. The wooden shaft is ornamented with red and yellow dyed goat's hair. [ASh [OPS move] 24/8/2018]
1923.85.861
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