- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Iron spear with leaf-shaped blade. The shaft is partly covered with leather and has an animal tail attached to it. [PH [OPS move] 5/7/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Kwanyama
- Person
- Field collector Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton
- PRM source Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1937
- Date collected
- 1936 - 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1941
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Animal Hair, Process Forged (Metal), Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1550 mm, Diameter: max 80 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1941.12.150 Other numbers: 37.2661
- Research and responses
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, Percy H. G. Powell-Cotton was a late 19th century - early 20th century English explorer of Central Africa. The collector and donors of the material catalogued in this entry, Miss A Powell-Cotton and Miss D. Powell-Cotton may possibly be his daughters? [Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica] [MR 3/4/2000]
1941.12.150
Iron spear with leaf-shaped blade. The shaft is partly covered with leather and has an animal tail attached to it. [PH [OPS move] 5/7/2018]
1941.12.150
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