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1899.62.617

Wooden spear with carved point and socketed bone butt. [VS [OPS move] 20/8/2018]

1899.62.617

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Collection type
Object
Description
Wooden spear with carved point and socketed bone butt. [VS [OPS move] 20/8/2018]
Geographical reference
Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea
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
Height: max 41 mm, Width: max 36 mm, Length: max 2294 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1899.62.617
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]

Search terms: Weapon, Spear

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