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Object Number
51-32-70/3266
Display Title
Spear, multiple carved barbs
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Spear, bamboo shaft, tapered wood point, barbed, fiber and resin, painted
Classification
- Spear
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Australia
/
Northern Territory
Materials
Wood, Pigment, Resin, Fiber, Bamboo
Dimensions
Overall: 208 x 2.4 x 2.4 cm (81 7/8 x 15/16 x 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
51-32-70/3266; Northern Territory/Aust.
Provenance
Expedition
Peabody Museum South Australian Expedition
(6/26/1951)
Collector
N.B. Tindale
(1951)
Collector
Dr. Joseph B. Birdsell
(1951)
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