Weapon - Spear
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- Type
- Spears
- Materials
- Adhesive - non specific, Pigment, Plant material - non specific, Wood
- Collection
- Dr Herbert Basedow collection
- Accession number
- 1985.0060.0425
Description
Cylindrical tapering wood shaft, grooved. Double row barbs, out of solid, pointing shaftwards. Shaft between barbs broadens out to form pointed oval below barbs on head, then tapers into shaft. Central incision in oval with `U' shaped incision below. Length of plant material around shaft below oval, covered in adhesive. Pigmented. Head has alternating bands dots, cross-hatching, infilled circles with crosses, diagonal lines or solid colour. Edges of oval have incisions sideways into head. Shaft has two bands solid colour. 'Bathurst Is.'
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