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Fish-spear

Wooden spear with a light tip consisting of four small sticks, these being long, round in cross-section, and brown in colour.

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Details

Collector/creator
Mikhail Vasiliev
Time collected
1820
Location collected
Port Jackson, Australia
Current museum
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg
Time deposited to current museum
1823
Current museum number
736-280
Material
Wood
Measurements
Overall length, 204 cm; length of tip, 73 cm; diameter of shaft, 2.1 cm; diameter of small sticks, 1.1 cm.
Source/publication/study
Barratt 1981; Belkov 2015