- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Long, flat spear-thrower with (loose) wooden peg bound by fibrous cord and coated with resin. Half of spear-thrower lightly covered in orange pigment. [El.B 21/08/2007]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- By 1936
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1936
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Resin Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Material Pigment, Process Bound, Process Painted, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1022 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1936.49.2
Search terms: Weapon, Spear-thrower
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