- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pig spear, with leaf-shaped blade, hafted to wooden shaft, and bound on with plant fibre. The shaft is ovate becoming rounder toward butt, which is broken. [VS [OPS move] 7/9/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Nicobar Islands
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Unknown
- Date collected
- Unknown
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884, uncertain Found unentered: 2018
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Iron Metal, Material Plant Fibre, Process Carved, Process Forged (Metal), Process Bound, Process Hammered
- Dimensions
- Height: max 26 mm, Width: max 38 mm, Length: max 2088 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.1889
1884.140.1889
Pig spear, with leaf-shaped blade, hafted to wooden shaft, and bound on with plant fibre. The shaft is ovate becoming rounder toward butt, which is broken. [VS [OPS move] 7/9/2018]
1884.140.1889
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