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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:R.1938.1.28.8 Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name spear Description Spear made of a wooden shaft, obsidian glass blade, black putty or gum, red ochre and white seeds or shell rings. Broken and ends are now missing. Handwritten label attached, partly missing: 'Dart armed with an obsidian head Rev E. Holland Brighton.' Donated in 1849. Production place Melanesia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Manus Province, Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands Production period 19th Century, middle Material wood, putty, obsidian, ochre, shell, seed Dimensions length: 90.00 cm Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

IPSMG:R.1938.1.28.8
Institution name

Ipswich Collections
Object name

spear
Description

Spear made of a wooden shaft, obsidian glass blade, black putty or gum, red ochre and white seeds or shell rings. Broken and ends are now missing. Handwritten label attached, partly missing: 'Dart armed with an obsidian head Rev E. Holland Brighton.' Donated in 1849.
Production place

Melanesia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Manus Province, Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands
Production period

19th Century, middle
Material

wood, putty, obsidian, ochre, shell, seed
Dimensions

Details