Spear

Museum number:

11-39617

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Accession number:

Acc.2431

Description:

Spear; red stained hardwood shaft has point attached with fiver and gum; point has eight sharply downturned barbs; lower end of shaft colored white. Used for fighting and hunting.

Donor:

W. Sprott Boyd

Collection place:

Melville Island, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory

Culture or time period:

Tiwi people (N20)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Spears (weapons)

Function:

1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control

Accession date:

1968

Department:

Oceania