Spear
- Museum number:
- 11-39601
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110039601
- Accession number:
- Acc.2431
- Description:
- Spear; carved hardwood shaft stained red, has carved hardwood point attached with gum; gum at shaft base; point has four down pointing barbs. Used in fighting and for 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:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing and 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- 1968
- Department:
- Oceania