Spear Item Number: C311 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

The tip is coiled with red and yellow plant fibre, below which, there are the following: four sets of four small barbs; and three sets of four increasingly longer barbs. The point is decorated with a red and yellow grass sleeve with a horizontal zig zag pattern around a central diamond shape pattern, a carved band that is emphasized with white and that consists of two figures (each of which has eyes, a triple upward pointing nose, and a diamond-shaped body), and a fibre tuft with string below. 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.