Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 19489[.1-2]: 'Spear of Masai type, with square-sectioned ferrule, and profuse copper-wire binding. Broad head'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession register for Z 19489[.1-2]: 'Spear, Masai type'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
This object was previously recorded as 'Maasai' but the accession register and the catalogue card only refer to this object as 'Maasai type'. Maasai has thus been queried in the cultural group field.
Event Date 27/8/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Wooden shaft and metal ferrule of a spear. The shaft has a circular cross-section and is tapered to a point at the blade end. There is a coil of metal wire around the shaft about halfway down, and a second coil above the socket of the ferrule. Ferrule is long with a split socket an square cross-section. Coil of wire just below the socket. Spearhead has become detached, Z 19489.1.
Event Date 2/11/2022
Author: Sam Daisley