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1886.1.235

Spear or javelin with a socketed barbed iron head. The shaft is made form wood, it tapers slightly towards the terminal end. [AB [OPS move] 10/8/2018]

1886.1.235

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Collection type
Object
Description
Spear or javelin with a socketed barbed iron head. The shaft is made form wood, it tapers slightly towards the terminal end. [AB [OPS move] 10/8/2018]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1656
Date collected
By 1656?
Acquisition information
Transferred: 01/12/1886
Materials and processes
Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved
Dimensions
Length: max 1359 mm, Depth: max 14 mm, Width: max 29 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.1.235 Other numbers: ?36
Associated publications
Possibly listed on page 45 of Museum Tradescantianum, Or a Collection of Rarities Preserved at South-Lambeth neer London, by John Tradescant (London, 1656), where there is an entry reading: 'Javelin⎯Japan, Turkish, or Indian lance'. [JC 19 9 2013] Listed as entry 385 on page 344 of 'Ethnological Specimens in the Pitt Rivers Museum attributed to the Tradescant Collection', by Lynne Williamson, in Tradescant's Rarities: Essays on the Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum 1683 with a Catalogue of the Surviving Early Collections, ed. Arthur MacGregor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), pp. 338−45. The entry takes the form of an edited transcription of the entry in the 'List of Anthropological objects transferred from the Ashmolean to the Pitt Rivers' museum 1886' (for which, see under ‘Primary Documentation’), with metric dimensions: ‘386. SPEAR (1886 no. 235). “Ditto, ditto [i.e. javelin like 1886.1.234], with similar but rather smaller head, length 180 mm, the shaft being complete. Whole length 1.37 m.” 1656 p. 45: Javelin⎯Japan, Turkish, or Indian lance.' [JC 17 9 2013]

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