Spear Item Number: C292 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

The tip is coiled with red plant fibre, below which, there are the following: four sets of four small barbs; three sets of four increasingly longer barbs; and six sets of four small barbs. The point is decorated with a light and dark brown grass sleeve with a horizontal zig zag pattern and a carved band that consists of two figures (each of which has eyes, a downward curving feature above and in between the eyes, a double upward curve below, and a large upward curve underneath). Red and yellow plant fibre coiling are at either ends of the grass sleeve. The dark brown wood shaft is plain and tapers at the end.