1895.22.231

Collection type

Object

Description

Spear made of tapered wood. The spear head has five sections of cane barbs which are bound with cane and black coloured resin. [PH [OPS move] 19/6/2018]

Geographical reference

Solomon Islands

Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands

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 Cane Plant, Material Resin Plant, Process Carved, Process Bound

Dimensions

Length: max 2346 mm, Diameter: max 27 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1895.22.231

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, Tool, Spear