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1886.1.1394

Spear. With a wooden shaft. The head has wooden barbs and two bird talon barbs. [AB [OPS move] 27/6/2018]


1886.1.1394

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Collection type
Object
Description
Spear. With a wooden shaft. The head has wooden barbs and two bird talon barbs. [AB [OPS move] 27/6/2018]
Long description
Spear. With a wooden shaft. The head has wooden barbs and two bird talon barbs. Beneath this it is bound with red and yellow plant fibre, there is a band of geometric carved designs coated in a white pigment and an expanding band of plant fibre. [AB [OPS move] 27/6/2018]
Date / Period
Date made: On or before 1875
Date collected
?On or before 1875
Acquisition information
Transferred: 13/02/1886
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Plant Fibre, Material Bird Claw, Process Painted, Process Carved, Process Bound
Dimensions
Diameter: max 43 mm, Length: max 3022 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.1.1394
Research and responses

Please note that there is no further information about Chambers on the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities [L.Ph 23/3/2004]

Search terms: Weapon, Spear