- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with bamboo shaft and socketed metal head. The is a coil of metal at the butt. The head has an arrow blade. [DV [OPS move] 6/7/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector William Balfour Baikie Expedition
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1854
- Date collected
- 1854
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Bamboo Plant, Process Socketed, Process Coiled, Process Forged (Metal)
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1888 mm, Depth: max 18 mm, Width: max 38 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1887.1.152
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