spear;
hunting equipment
- Museum number
- Oc1839,0620.42
- Description
-
Hunting spear comprising wood shaft with wood barb attached by gum and fibre. Single black pigment band below barb.
- Production date
- 1839 (before)
- Dimensions
-
Length: 257 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- A listing of this collection, titled 'Implements used by the Natives in the neighbourhood of the Swan River, collected by S Neil Talbot Esq. in 1838 and presented by him to the British Museum' was entered in the 'Acquisitions Ethnographical 1835- 1839' (Dept of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Archives).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1839
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1839,0620.42