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

Collection type: Object
Description: Spear with long naturally carved wooden shaft and a carved head with 5 rows of 3 barbs. One row of longer barbs, and two rows of shorter barbs. [RH [OPS move] 7/8/2018]
Geographical reference: Equatorial Guinea
Africa > Central Africa > Equatorial Guinea; Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia
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: Length: max 2284 mm, Width: max 42 mm, Depth: max 38 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.607 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

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