Spear with long light wood shaft, with dark wood point painted white, with 5 stingray barbs bound to it with animal gut. The shaft is bound at each end with resin. [RH [OPS move] 8/8/2018]

Collection type: Object
Description: Spear with long light wood shaft, with dark wood point painted white, with 5 stingray barbs bound to it with animal gut. The shaft is bound at each end with resin. [RH [OPS move] 8/8/2018]
Geographical reference: Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia; Queensland Cape York
Person: Field collector H.S. Robinson; PRM source H.S. Robinson
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1903
Date collected: By 1903
Acquisition information: Donated: 1903
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Stingray Spine Fish, Material Animal Gut, Material Resin Plant, Process Painted, Process Bound, Process Painted
Dimensions: Length: max 2823 mm, Diameter: max 18 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1903.31.5
Research and responses: Possibly Herbert Christopher Robinson, who undertook an expedition to Perak and the [then] Siamese Malay states in 1901-1902 with Nelson Annandale, under the auspices of the Universities of Edinburgh and Liverpool. The results of this expedition were published in Fasciculi malayenses: anthropological and zoological results of an expedition to Perak and the Siamese Malay States, 1901-1902, published in London by Longmans, Green in four parts between 1903 and 1907. [CW 6/1/2000] However HS Robinson might also have been a relative donating objects actually collected by Herbert Christopher Robinson, it is unclear [AP 19/11/2001]

Search terms: Weapon, Spear

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