- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden spear with multiple bone barbed head, with two longer bone points, and binding for a third which is now missing. [VS [OPS move] 20/8/2018]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1891
- Date collected
- 1891
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1938
- Materials and processes
- Material Palm Wood Plant, Material String, Material Bone, Material Pigment, Process Bound, Process Carved, Process Dyed
- Dimensions
- Length: max 2925 mm, Height: max 62 mm, Width: max 72 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1938.23.52
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