This artefact is a (Herero) hunting spear made of wood with barbs on one side. It was used for birds and soft-skinned small animals as well as for fishing. fishing. Because of their design, some consider these arrows more suitable for for fishing rather than bird hunting, as the pierced fish is held on the spear by the barbs. barbs on the spear. It is also noteworthy that that some (preserved) Ovambo arrows from the 19th and 20th centuries are the same way. The basic arrow shape of the Ovambo was already well established before their arrival in Namibia and was also through contact with the earlier cultures in Namibia such as the the Hai‖om, for example. Possibly other cultures in Namibia may have been influenced by the construction of the Ovambo weapons, so that they adopted this arrow shape for a spear. for a spear. As the object has no visible book marks on its end traces at its end, it can be ruled out that it is an arrow the nock of which has been lost due to age and/or handling. The collector and the exact circumstances of the acquisition remain unclear to date (processing status: 2023). Due to the colonial collection context, the object is still to be categorised as sensitive.