Pigmented spear with prongs

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Type: Spears
Date: 1927
Materials: Adhesive - non specific, Pigment, Plant fibre, Wood
Collection: Dr William Warner collection
Accession number: 1985.0072.0148

Description

A pigmented spear with a flat wooden head with a double row of prongs, out of the solid, hafted with a yellow pigmented plant material and adhesive binding to a cylindrical truncated wood shaft, The head has one prong missing but would originally of had three pairs of downwards prongs. Between the prongs and the binding there are four pairs of barbs, out of the solid, one of which is missing. The two lower pairs of prongs have a yellow or white pigmented plant fibre binding around the shoulders. The head has alternate transverse bands of yellow and white with stripes of red and white between. The yellow also has some longitudinal lines on it. The barbs near the binding are pigmented red-brown and have transverse stripes in yellow and white. The shaft is mostly red brown with a white segment at the end that has yellow transverse and diagonal lines on it. The number 'A-WS 1273' is handwritten on the shaft.

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