Wooden spear with barbs. [AFS [OPS move] 15/6/2018]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden spear with barbs. [AFS [OPS move] 15/6/2018]
Long description: Wooden spear with barbs. The top of the shaft has a woven plant fibre collar coloured black and natural, before the spear head begins. The head has four sections of wooden barbs above a similar smaller woven plant fibre section, and the tip is bound. The end of the shaft has a bamboo extension which has a small bound section before it meets the wooden shaft. [AFS [OPS move] 15/6/2018]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands
Person: Field collector H.A. Tufnell; Field collector Henry Archibald Tufnell; Field collector Sir William MacGregor; PRM source Henry Anson
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1899
Date collected: By 1899
Acquisition information: Donated: 1899.
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Material Resin Plant, Material Bamboo Plant, Process Decorated, Process Carved, Process Woven, Process Bound
Dimensions: Diameter: max 23 mm, Length: max 2716 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1899.62.571
Research and responses: There are two photographs of Solomon Island spears (& spear-heads) collected by Tufnell in the Photos Archive (1998.186.10 .1-2). This object may feature in one of them. [CF 15/5/2001]

Search terms: Weapon, Spear

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