- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear comprising a cane shaft and very long wooden foreshaft. Blade is missing. [JMC [OPS move] 9/8/2018]
- Long description
- Spear comprising a cane shaft to which a very long and bowed wooden foreshaft has been bound. Bound to the tip of the foreshaft is a fragment of resin, into which a blade, now missing, would have been set. This has been partially painted red. The binding is in animal gut or sinew. [JMC [OPS move] 9/8/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Northern Territory Victoria River
- Cultural groups
- Yangman
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1906
- Date collected
- By 1906
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1906
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Cane Plant, Material Resin Plant, Material Animal Gut, Material Animal Sinew, Process Carved, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 24 mm, Width: max 56 mm, Length: max 2228 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1906.11.15
1906.11.15
Spear comprising a cane shaft and very long wooden foreshaft. Blade is missing. [JMC [OPS move] 9/8/2018]
1906.11.15
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