Spear with hafted stone head
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- Type
- Spears
- Date
- 1927
- Materials
- Adhesive - non specific, Ink, Paper, Pigment, Plant fibre, Stone - non specific, Wood
- Collection
- Dr William Warner collection
- Accession number
- 1985.0072.0133
Description
A cylindrical wood shaft spear with a triangular stone blade head hafted with black adhesive and bound with orange pigmented fibre string. The other end of the spear is blunt and has the remains of a fibre binding and black adhesive. Handwritten text on the shaft reads "A-WS 1025" in white ink. A paper label with the spear has a metal tie and reads "Spears (Flint headed) / [I.?] / N.E. Arnhem Land".
Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 6:54:58 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2025-02-24. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.