IDNO

D.98890.GCUM

Description

“8 elaborately carved wooden spears - used in War dances - 4 are tipped with Sting of the Ray - All are finely bound with sinnet (ie. fine string of cocoa fibre - Two great 4 pronged fish spears.”
The right spear “measures 4 ft 6. from ‘x’ to the tips.” [Gordon Cumming’s annotation, JD 6/1/2012]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica [Original Artist]

Collector / Expedition

?Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica

Date

circa 1876 - 1877

Collection Name

Gordon Cumming Collection

Source

Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica

Format

Painting

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This album has been transferred from CUMMA’s Object Collections (original accession number Z 4152), into the Photographic Collections, and catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One.

P.98869.GCUM to P.99045.GCUM are in A.169.GCUM.