Spear has light, smooth shaft and brown tip which is round in cross-section. By the point, there are lightly cut, wavy lines. The tip is fixed to the wide end of the shaft and reinforced by binding on which is smeared a gummy substance.
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Details
- Collector/creator
- Fabian Bellingshausen
- Time collected
- 1820
- Location collected
- Australia? Oceania?
- Transfer history
- Admiralty Museum, Saint Petersburg, 1822 > >
- Current museum
- Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg
- Time deposited to current museum
- 1828
- Current museum number
- 736-276
- Material
- Wood, gummy substance
- Measurements
- Overall length, 254 cm, length of tip, 73 cm, diameter, 1.7 cm.
- Source/publication/study
- Barratt 1981; Belkov 2015