spear
- Museum number
- Oc1949,05.21
- Description
-
Wood spear with eight sets of four barbs carved from the solid. A swelling below the barbs is covered with yellow and black plaited reedwork.
- Production date
- 19thC(late)
- Dimensions
-
Length: 95 inches
- Curator's comments
- Register 1949
Collected between 1880 and 1890 by the late admiral Carruthers, then Engineer-Lieutenant on board the survey ship HMS Ringdove.
Solomon Islands.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Acquisition notes
- Register reads for collection Oc1949,05:
Given by Mrs. D. Carruthers, Beaconscott, Vincent Road, Selsey, Sussex.
Collected between 1880 and 1890 by the late admiral Carruthers, then Engineer-Lieutenant on board the survey ship H.M.S. Ringdove.
As HMS Ringdove was stationed in Australia from 1890 to 1901, this object would actually have been collected in the 1890s.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1949,05.21