fish-spear
- Museum number
- Oc.6583
- Description
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Fish-spear with bamboo shaft and nine coconut wood points, the central one barbed the others simply pointed. Rattan fastening.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1865)
- Dimensions
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Height: 197.60 centimetres
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Width: 6.50 centimetres
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Depth: 3.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register slip reads:
From Gulf Id. Solomon Islands., Aug. 1865.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Acquisition notes
- From a collection made by Julius Brenchley in 1865 on a cruise of HMS Curacoa around the Pacific, which was divided among Maidstone Museum, the British Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum and Exeter Museum.
Register slip reads:
Presd. by Julius L. Brenchley Esq 24.3.1870 (M.)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.6583
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1870C1.6583 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1870C0324.182