- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden spear with stingray barb tip. [AFS [OPS move] 15/6/2018]
- Long description
- Wooden Spear with stingray barb tip. The shaft ends in four carved bands, after which the head of the spear, which is square in section, begins. The head of the spear is bound with plant fibre, and the tip has a resin collar to attach the sting ray barb, which has broken off and is packed with the spear. The terminal of the shaft has a single carved band. [AFS [OPS move] 15/6/2018]
- Geographical reference
- New Georgia Ramada Island Nggerasi District
- Person
- Field collector Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville
- Field collector HMS Penguin
- PRM source Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1894
- Date collected
- 1893 - 1894
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1895
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Material Stingray Spine Fish, Material Resin Plant, Process Carved, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 2444 mm, Diameter: max 26 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1895.22.220
- 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]
1895.22.220
Wooden spear with stingray barb tip. [AFS [OPS move] 15/6/2018]
1895.22.220
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