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1886.1.606

Spear with long naturally carved wooden shaft and a carved head with 5 rows of 3 barbs. [RH [OPS move] 7/8/2018]


1886.1.606

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Collection type
Object
Description
Spear with long naturally carved wooden shaft and a carved head with 5 rows of 3 barbs. [RH [OPS move] 7/8/2018]
Person
Field collector N.J. Cole
Field collector HMS Oryx, Portsmouth
PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period
Date made: On or before 1828
Date collected
?On or before 1828
Acquisition information
Transferred: 08/03/1886
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Width: max 28 mm, Length: max 2419 mm, Depth: max 24 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.1.606 Other numbers: 114
Research and responses

Letter 59 dated 30 May 1828 in 'Correspondence, Chiefly Mr Duncan's' (AMS 15) is from Lieutenant N.J. Cole (HMS Oryx, Portsmouth), so I think it is reasonable to assume that he is the Lieut. Cole recorded as the donor of a number of items transferred from the Ashmolean to the PRM in 1886. [JC 1 11 2012]

Search terms: Weapon, Spear