Spear head
This Australian spearhead is made out of bottle glass. The Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia used this as an alternative to stone for making tools and weapons. The fine shaping was done by applying pressure to the edges of the piece to force small flakes of glass off the surface.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 33/1953/49/3
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Material
- glass (bottle glass)
- Common Name
- spear head
- Simple Name
- spear head
- Production County
- West Australia
- Production Country
- Australia