- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with red stained cane shaft and black stained wood point bound to shaft with plant fibre strip, covered with resin. [RH [OPS move] 15/8/2018]
- Person
- Field collector Henry Nottidge Moseley
- Field collector HMS Challenger
- PRM source Amabel Nevill Sollas
- Date
- Date collected
- 1872 - 1876
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 07/1919
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Cane Plant, Material Pigment, Material Plant Fibre, Material Resin Plant, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Stained
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1766 mm, Diameter: max 15 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1919.25.8
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