Javelin | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Javelin
A spear with an angular hardwood tip and a thick, light-colored palmwood shaft. The tip is secured by a cord wrap. Spears like these were used to hunt fish on the reef.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Speer
Dimensions
Länge: 1800.0 mm
Material/Technique
Palm wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0682
Provenance and sources
when
before 1900
when
25.09.1902
where
Marshall Islands (location/origin)
Micronesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Provenance
Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) /Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit)
This object probably belongs to the collection of Antonie and Eugen Brandeis, even if it cannot be precisely identified. It is possible that the spears II/681-682 are the spears that were listed in the first consignment of April 1900 under object numbers 38-40 (object list, SAF D.Sm 35/1). These have the numbers 1314-1316 in the Old Inventory: "Fischspeer. Mari in cangr. point of ironwood." Antonie Brandeis added the following comment to these spears: "When the water level is low, men and boys go to the reef on the lagoon side and kill larger fish with fish spears No. 38-40" ("Bemerkungen zu den dem Museum zu Freiburg /B. übersandten ethnologischen Gegenständen aus den Marshallinseln. South Seas". SAF D.Sm 35/1). It was not inventoried until 1902 (presumably at a later date).
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