Spear with wooden prong; label 'Spear barbed with stings of stingaree' [sting-ray?].

Details

Collector/creator

Alexander Yashchenko

Time collected

1903

Location collected

Cairns, Queensland (place of purchaise)

Transfer history

Russian Geographical Society, Saint Petersburg > >

Current museum

Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg

Time deposited to current museum

1905

Current museum number

921-90

Material

Wood, rattan, plant fibre, resin

Measurements

Length of lower part with binding 129 cm, upper part with prong 133.5 cm, overall length 262.5 cm

Source/publication/study

Kabo 1960; Barratt 1982