- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with wooden shaft and socketed metal head. The shaft has carved decoration and is bound with animal hide. The head has a leaf shaped blade. [DV [OPS move] 5/7/2018]
- Long description
- Spear with wooden shaft and socketed metal head. The shaft has carved decoration and is bound with animal hide and an animal claw. The head has a leaf shaped blade. [DV [OPS move] 5/7/2018]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1912
- Date collected
- By 1912
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1913
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Animal Claw, Process Carved, Process Forged (Metal), Process Stitched, Process Socketed, Process Nailed, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 28 mm, Width: max 40 mm, Length: max 1805 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1913.12.2
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