Alcheringa Images

Spear

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