- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden spear with carved point and socketed bone butt. The tip is broken, as is the epiphysis of the bone is broken. [VS [OPS move] 20/8/2018]
- Geographical reference
- New Britain Bismarck Archipelago
- 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 Bone, Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Socketed, Process Stained
- Dimensions
- Length: max 2418 mm, Diameter: max 31 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1899.62.616
- Research and responses
There is a photograph in the Photos Archive of New Britain or New Ireland spears collected by Tufnell (1998.186.21 .3). This object may feature in one of them. [CF 15/5/2001]
1899.62.616
Wooden spear with carved point and socketed bone butt. The tip is broken, as is the epiphysis of the bone is broken. [VS [OPS move] 20/8/2018]
1899.62.616
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