- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Palm wood spear, with notched barbs and a square protrusion on one side of the spear head. [VS [OPS move] 20/8/2018]
- Person
- Field collector Sydney Douglas Burrows
- PRM source Mrs M.O. Burrows
- PRM source Mrs Gordon Canning
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1933
- Date collected
- 1933
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1933
- Materials and processes
- Material Palm Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 2415 mm, Diameter: max 26 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1933.18.178
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