- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden spear with sharks teeth bound to head, and shaft bound with palm leaves. [AFS [OPS move] 25/6/2018]
- Long description
- Wooden spear with sharks teeth bound to head, and shaft bound with palm leaves. There are two columns of remaining teeth, both of which are bound with a plant fibre string between two parallel wooden sticks, and equally spaced ribs of plant fibre binding. Some evidence remains of the other two columns of shark teeth. There are four sections of tightly woven plant fibre string along the head. The shaft has been bound with palm leaves, and plant fibre string in equally spaced ribs. There is an irron nail attached to the shaft by a piece of string. [AFS [OPS move] 25/6/2018]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Ipswich Museum
- PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1966
- Date collected
- By 1966
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1966
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Shark Tooth Fish, Material Palm Leaf Plant, Material Iron Metal, Process Perforated, Process Bound, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 29 mm, Length: max 3025 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1966.1.68
1966.1.68
Wooden spear with sharks teeth bound to head, and shaft bound with palm leaves. [AFS [OPS move] 25/6/2018]
1966.1.68
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