Spear head with ornamental barbs and bindings (sawn off from shaft 1899.62.583.2).

Collection type: Object
Description: Spear head with ornamental barbs and bindings (sawn off from shaft 1899.62.583.2).
Long description: Spear head with bone barbs and ornamental bindings (sawn off from shaft 1899.62.583.2). The bone barbs are held in place with plant fibre binding coated in red and white pigment. Below this is a section of red and yellow cane binding, an anthropomorphic carving filled in with white pigment, and a spherical decoration of plant leaf.
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Bougainville Straits
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, Process Decorated, Material Animal Bone, Material Plant Fibre, Material Cane Plant, Material Plant Leaf, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Painted
Dimensions: Length 730 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1899.62.583.1
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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