Spear
- Museum number:
- 11-1302
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110001302
- Accession number:
- Acc.371
- Description:
- Long slender black spear. Carved and straw wound fore-shaft; point set with whorls of bone barbs.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Bougainville Island, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Islands Region
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Solomon Is.; Melanesia
- Culture or time period:
- Melanesian
- Collector:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Materials:
- Bone (material) and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Spears (weapons)
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- May 1909
- Department:
- Oceania
- Legacy documentation:
-