spear-head
- Museum number
- Oc,LMS.28
- Description
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Spear-head made of wood, with a collar of carved flaring spikes.
- Production date
- 18thC-19thC(early) (before 1824)
- Dimensions
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Height: 50.50 centimetres
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Width: 5 centimetres
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Depth: 4.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Registration slip description, written in 1890?:
Hervey Group
End of a spear of fine brown wood prepared for splicing, near the splice is a group of eight radiating projections carved in the style of the High Island paddles.
85 - Long staves as used in Aitutaki
No G. Bennet special occasions as idol
85 Spear head [Aitutaki? JEP]
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Similar to CUMAA example illustrated in S. Hooper, 'Pacific Encounters: Art & Divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860', London, British Museum Press, 2006, p.203 from Austral Islands
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2015 9 July-19 Sept, London, SOAS Brunei Gallery, Missionaries and Idols in Polynesia
- Acquisition date
- 1911
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,LMS.28
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1911C27.28 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1890,Loan (originally loaned to BM in 1890 by LMS)
