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1895.22.219

Wooden spear, with 'imitation sting ray point' made of wood. [AFS [OPS move] 15/6/2018]

1895.22.219

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Collection type
Object
Description
Wooden spear, with 'imitation sting ray point' made of wood. [AFS [OPS move] 15/6/2018]
Long description
Wooden spear, with 'imitation sting ray point' made of wood. The shaft ends in three carved bands, which are painted white from the second band onto the start of the spear head. The head of the spear is square in section, and the paint ends at the start of the plant fibre binding. There are three ribbons of red textile tied along the head. The tip, 'imitation sting ray point', is painted white. [AFS [OPS move] 15/6/2018]
Geographical reference
Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands
New Georgia Ramada Island Nggerasi District
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1894
Date collected
1893 - 1894
Acquisition information
Donated: 09/1895
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Material Textile, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Woven, Process Painted, Process Dyed
Dimensions
Length: max 2570 mm, Diameter: max 24 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1895.22.219
Research and responses

For an account of Somerville's collection from the Solomon Islands, see 'The H. B. T. Somerville Collection of Artefacts from the Solomon Islands in the Pitt Rivers Museum’, by Deborah Waite, in The General’s Gift: A Celebration of the Pitt Rivers Museum Centenary, 1884–1984 (JASO Occasional Papers, no. 3), edited by B. A. L. Cranstone and Steven Seidenberg (Oxford: JASO, 1884), pp. 41–52. (Copy in RDF: Collectors: Somerville.) [JC 24 2 2007]

For an account of Somerville's collecting in the Solomon Islands, see 'Notes and Queries, Science, and “Curios”: Lieutenant Boyle Somerville’s Ethnographic Collecting in the Solomon Islands, 1893–1895’, by Deborah Waite, in JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Vol. XXXI, no. 3 (Michaelmas 2000), pp. 277-308. (Copy in RDF: Collectors: Somerville.) [JC 24 2 2007]

Search terms: Weapon, Spear

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