- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with long cane shaft in two sections bound together with cane strips and a wood foreshaft painted red and white, with a clear glass blade bound to it with black resin.
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1898
- Date collected
- By 1898
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1898
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Cane Plant, Material Glass, Material Resin Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Flaked, Process Recycled, Process Painted, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 24 mm, Length: max 2623 mm, Width: max 25 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1898.75.24
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