spear
- Museum number
- Oc1928,0107.1
- Description
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Spear made of wood, vegetable fibre.
- Dimensions
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Length: 120.50 inches (from original registration)
- Curator's comments
- Eth.Doc.1096. Donations Book gives G.C.Wheeler (same donor as Oc1927,10-3 collection); Register "J.C.Wheeler" in error. Donations Book and Register note: "Bows and arrows and paddles incorporated under 1927,10-3."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1928
- Acquisition notes
- Gerald C Wheeler was an anthropologist who researched in Solomon Islands in 1908 to 1909 on an expedition with W. H. R. Rivers and A. M. Hocart. He began on Simbo but spent most of his time on Alu. He gave collections of artefacts to the British Museum in 1927, registered as Oc1927.0310 and Oc1927.1003 and documented in Eth Doc 1096.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1928,0107.1