Decorated spear with single row of barbs
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- Type
- Spears
- Materials
- Adhesive - non specific, Pigment, Plant material - non specific, Wood
- Collection
- Charles Hart collection
- Accession number
- 1985.0075.0480
Description
A decorated spear with a single row of barbs out of the solid, pointing shaftwards with a cylindrical tapering wood shaft, hafted with a white pigmented plant material and adhesive binding. There is a row of bosses below the barbs and a row of incised reverse barbs on the opposite side above the binding. Two of the barbs have a solid colour, one red and one yellow, whilst the rest are covered with white or yellow dots. The bosses and reverse barbs are covered in bands of solid colour in black, yellow, and red with white lines between them. The shaft opposite has longitudinal bands with diagonal lines of white and yellow on natural wood and solid red and yellow segments. The tip of the spear is red, and the shaft has bands of solid colour, yellow white and red. There are cracks along the shaft.
Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 6:32:49 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2025-02-23. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.