- 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]
- Geographical reference
- 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]
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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