- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with barbed, four-pointed head. [JMC [OPS move] 27/7/2018]
- Long description
- Slender wooden spear with square-sectioned, four-pointed head. It tapers to a point at the butt. Each of the points at the head is serrated on the outside edge. Below the head is an expanded collar resembling two stacked cones. [JMC [OPS move] 27/7/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Manus Province Aua Island
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1921?, uncertain
- Date collected
- Probably 1921
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1924
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1928 mm, Diameter: max 20 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1924.51.20
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