Spear carved from wood, the head is carved with quadriform barbs with five stingray spines (one missing) bound to the tip with red string. [AB [OPS move] 9/8/2018]

Collection type: Object
Description: Spear carved from wood, the head is carved with quadriform barbs with five stingray spines (one missing) bound to the tip with red string. [AB [OPS move] 9/8/2018]
Long description: Spear carved from wood, the head is carved with quadriform barbs with five stingray spines (one missing) bound to the tip with red string. Beneath the carved section the shaft is elaborately bound with sennit. [AB [OPS move] 9/8/2018]
Geographical reference: Fiji
Oceania > Melanesia > Fiji
Person: Field collector Henry Nottidge Moseley; Field collector HMS Challenger; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Date made: Before 11/08/1874
Date collected: 25 July to 11 August 1874
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1886
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Stingray Spine Fish, Material String, Material Sennit Coconut Seed Fibre Plant, Process Carved, Process Bound
Dimensions: Depth: max 38 mm, Width: max 59 mm, Length: max 3413 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1887.1.654 Other numbers: Balfour catalogue (?): CCC.LVII

Search terms: Weapon, Spear

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