- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Assegai spear with a leaf-shaped blade, bound to the wooden shaft with animal hide. [AFS [OPS move] 4/7/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Zulu
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1880, uncertain Date made: 1880, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1880
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 08/03/1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Hide Skin, Process Bound, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Width: max 34 mm, Length: max 1602 mm, Depth: max 22 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.1.452
1886.1.452
Assegai spear with a leaf-shaped blade, bound to the wooden shaft with animal hide. [AFS [OPS move] 4/7/2018]
1886.1.452
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.