Spear Item Number: C294 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

The tip is coiled with yellow-brown plant fibre, below which, there are the following: four sets of four small barbs; three sets of four increasingly longer barbs; and seven sets of four small barbs. The point is decorated with a red and yellow grass sleeve with a horizontal zig zag pattern around a central red diamond shape pattern, a carved band that is emphasized with white and that consists of two figures (each of which has circular eyes and a double upward pointing nose), and a fibre tuft. Below, there is another red and yellow grass sleeve that has a similar pattern as the one above. Bright red and yellow plant fibre coiling are at either ends of the grass sleeve. The red-brown wood shaft is plain and square in cross section.