Alcheringa Images

Spear shaft

Spear has light shaft and toothed wooden tip.

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Details

Collector/creator
Vasily Golovnin?
Time collected
1808
Location collected
Tana, New Hebrides? (misattributed as Australia)
Transfer history
Admiralty Museum, Saint Petersburg, 1816 > >
Current museum
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg
Time deposited to current museum
1828
Current museum number
736-279
Material
Wood
Measurements
Overall length, 269 cm, length of tip, 73 cm.
Source/publication/study
Barratt 1981