Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1921.821-832: '12 Masai spears - showing gradual lessening of wood-spacer for hand'.
Event Date 1921
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Acquisition Details)
On 10 November 1920, Maynard, curator at the Ipswich Museum, wrote to A.C. Haddon to inform him of the imminent dispatch of a collection of East African material formed by Sir Frederick Jackson. Earlier that year, Maynard had acquired the bulk of the Jackson collection for the Ipswich Museum. The remainder of Jackson’s collection was then kept in storage.
Maynard arranged for the stored collection to be dispatched to MAA on 16 November 1920. It was formally accessioned in 1921. Although historically MAA presented the Ipswich Museum as the donor of the collection, Ipswich Museum (through Maynard) was only a mediator in its transfer. Sir F. Jackson has thus been reinstated as both collector and donor of the collection.

(Both letters referred to above can be found in MAA’s archives, correspondence collection).
Event Date 1921
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Accession register for 1921.821-832: '12 Masai spears'.
Event Date 1921
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Ferrule has square shoulders.
Event Date 15/12/2000
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
The object was previously recorded as simply originating from Africa. As the Maasai inhabits northern, central and southern Kenya as well as northern Tanzania, Tanzania was tentatively added to the production and place fields.
Event Date 30/6/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
The 1921 catalogue card for 1921.821-832 notes 'nos 3, 56 - 66, 59, 54' in pencil - these number may refer to a previous collection perhaps that of Sir Frederick John Jackson who donated this object in 1921 through the Ipswich Museum. It is unknown which number refers to which object.
Event Date 30/6/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1921.823[.1-2]: 'Spear with thin and long ridged blade and wooden shaft armed with a cylindrical ferrule covering most of the shaft. The ferrule has square shoulders.'
Event Date 9/7/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Wooden shaft and metal ferrule of a spear. The shaft has a circular cross-section and tapers and the head end. The ferrule is long, with split socket. Square section below the socket, followed by a section tapering to a point with a circular cross-section. Spearhead detached, 1921.823.1.
Event Date 24/10/2022
Author: Sam Daisley