Description (CMS Description)
Fish-spear-head with cross-hatching. Part of the long wooden handle has been cut off.Carved, wooden barbed spearhead, painted with black, white, yellow and red ?ochre paint. The pointed tip is yellow and the cross-hatching and bands on the rest of the spear head are in red, white and yellow on a background of black.
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Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
(Bio) (Collector) Fredrick John Afford Bateman was a doctor in Alice Springs periodically between 1955 -1959, where he worked both in the hospital there and as a flying medic.Richard Bateman, the collector’s son, in correspondence with CUMAA adds: ‘It was a practice that all weapons, shields, knives were left outside the ward [at the Alice Spring Hospital] and were often unclaimed after the patients left the hospital.’This object is one of eight fish-spear-heads collected during this period. Two have been retained by CUMAA.
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Author: maa