Spear with worked obsidian blade, socketed onto a wooden shaft and bound with string and resin. [JMC [OPS move] 22/8/2018]

Collection type: Object
Description: Spear with worked obsidian blade, socketed onto a wooden shaft and bound with string and resin. [JMC [OPS move] 22/8/2018]
Long description: Spear with worked obsidian blade and slender wooden shaft. The obsidian has been set into an oval-sectioned wooden socket which is jointed onto the top of the shaft. The obsidian blade is held in place by a string binding which has been painted in a pattern of red and white reticulating lozenges. The join of the shaft and socket is bound with string coated in resin, painted with red and white lozenges and decorated with strung coix seeds. [JMC [OPS move] 22/8/2018] /2018]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Admiralty Islands Bismarck Archipelago
Person: Field collector Norman Heywood Hardy; PRM source Robert Francis Wilkins
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1900
Date collected: By 1900
Acquisition information: Donated: 1900 Found unentered: 21/08/2018
Materials and processes: Material Resin Plant, Material Wood Plant, Material Obsidian Stone, Material Coix Seed Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Flaked, Process Painted, Process Strung
Dimensions: Depth: max 27 mm, Width: max 53 mm, Length: max 1574 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2018.144.1

Search terms: Weapon, Spear

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