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1921.91.54

Spearhead of clear glass with green tinge. [El.B 30/07/2007]

1921.91.54

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Collection type
Object
Description
Spearhead of clear glass with green tinge. [El.B 30/07/2007]
Geographical reference
Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia
Western Australia Kimberley District
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Archibald Colquhoun Bell
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1920
Date collected
By 1920
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1920
Materials and processes
Material Glass, Process Recycled, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Length: max 114 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1921.91.54
Research and responses

Related Documents File - Correspondence from A.C. Bell to Balfour regarding the transfer of his late father's collection to the Pitt Rivers Museum. [MOB 21/11/2001]

Associated publications
1921.91.54 is illustrated as fig. 55 (with 1953.10.4, 1938.35.1401, 1940.7.11 and 1938.35.1403) on page 63 of Transformations: The Art of Recycling, by Jeremy Coote, Chris Morton, and Julia Nicholson (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 2000). (LP 21/6/2000) Illustrated in colour on page 110 of The Pitt Rivers Museum: A World Within, by Michael O’Hanlon (London: Scala, 2014). Caption (page 111) reads: ‘83 (opposite) A selection of Aboriginal glass spear heads (detail). See Coote et al. 2000, p.63 for accession details and sizes’ [MJD (Verve) 19/2/2016]

Search terms: Weapon, Spear-head

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