- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Palm wood spear, tapering at both ends. There is a carved ridge at the base of the head. [AB [OPS move] 21/8/2018]
- 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
- Diameter: max 16 mm, Length: max 2235 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1933.18.184
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