Spear with wooden shaft, expanded the butt. Metal, narrow leaf shaped head with extended tang. Binding covered with resin. [MOBB [OPS move] 12/7/2018]

Collection type: Object
Description: Spear with wooden shaft, expanded the butt. Metal, narrow leaf shaped head with extended tang. Binding covered with resin. [MOBB [OPS move] 12/7/2018]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa
Cultural groups: Zulu
Person: Field collector Russell; PRM source Marjorie T. Cam
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1929
Date collected: By 1929
Acquisition information: Donated: 1929
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Material Resin Plant, Process Socketed, Process Bound, Process Carved
Dimensions: Width: max 33 mm, Length: max 1344 mm, Depth: max 22 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1929.12.1
Research and responses: This collection was listed under 'Accessions by Donation' in the Report of the Pitt-Rivers Museum, 1929, by Henry Balfour, as (with accession numbers inserted): 'Zulu assegai [1929.12.1], carved wooden Kaffir staff [1929.12.2]; native dress sword with European blade and decorated scabbard [1929.12.4], 2 leather-mounted ox-horns for parade [1929.12.4-.5], 2 knives with Sheffield blades and elaborate sheaths [[1929.12.6-.7], hair fly-whisk [[1929.12.8], Bathurst, Senegambia, W. Africa; flag-shaped mat-work fan [1929.12.9], ? Senegambia; 2 large sheets of decorated (? Fijian) bark cloth [1929.12.10-.11], Funafuti Island. Presented by Mrs. Cam.' [JC 21 1 2011]
According to an email from Julian Reid (Archivist, Merton College) to Jeremy Coote (PRM) dated 21 January 2011, George Rodney Scott was a Fellow of Merton (1874-1904), who died in 1929. (See biographical entry on Scott for further details.) [JC 21 1 2011]

Search terms: Weapon, Spear

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