Wooden spear, rough workmanship, with Widerhacken [barbes]. Light and smooth, with winding to reinforce the tip. The shaft is split.
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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
- 736-274
- Material
- Wood
- Measurements
- Length 175 cm, diameter 1.6 cm.
- Source/publication/study
- Barratt 1981; Belkov 2015