- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Straight rod spear-thrower with wooden peg fixed in resin. Six deeply incised bands around each end. [El.B 21/08/2007]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- By 1931
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1931
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Resin Plant, Process Carved, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 800 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1931.78.30
- Research and responses
Related Documents File [James Thomas Hooper, Catalogue of Ethnographical Material] - The museum has a photocopy of Hooper's accession and dispersal records, which are bound as two volumes and kept in a separate box file. Items are arranged according to Hooper's own numbering system [RTS 21/11/2003].
Search terms: Weapon, Spear-thrower
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