Spear head made from dark wood with a pointed carved tip and seven sets of barbs below. There are three bands of sennit fibre bound around the head. [RH [OPS move] 4/9/2018]

Collection type: Object
Description: Spear head made from dark wood with a pointed carved tip and seven sets of barbs below. There are three bands of sennit fibre bound around the head. [RH [OPS move] 4/9/2018]
Geographical reference: Fiji
Oceania > Melanesia > Fiji
Person: Field collector William Drewett; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1870
Date collected: ?On or before 1870
Acquisition information: Transferred: 13/02/1886
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Sennit Coconut Seed Fibre Plant, Process Carved, Process Bound
Dimensions: Length: max 1264 mm, Width: max 81 mm, Depth: max 73 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.1627
Research and responses: Edward Evans's entry for item 1886.1.1627 in the 'List of Anthropological objects transferred from the Ashmolean to the Pitt Rivers' museum 1886', records 'From the Fiji Islands, Brought home by and given by Mr. W. Drewett Oxford 1870'. It thus seems safe to conclude that all the Fijian objects donated by Drewett were brought from Fiji by him. [JC 28 1 2015]