94/1986
A broad arrow-shaped iron spear.
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96/1986
Spear for hunting and warfare.
1891/7/5
A spear used for fighting and hunting.
97/1986
Iron-headed spear. Length = 875mm
98/1986
Iron-headed spear collected by LAD Montague.
109/1951/3/2
A barbed spear used for fighting and hunting.
99/1986
100/1986
Iron-headed spear. Length = 937mm.
101/1986
Collected by LAD Montague.
102/1986
60/1948/71
Acquired by Colonel W.H. Broun (formerly William Hamilton Briggs, a medical officer) during his trip to East Africa after his military career.
60/1948/61/7
This spear was made for use by a Nandi junior warrior.
60/1948/61/17
47/1986
High quality spearhead decorated with extremely fine copper-alloy wire, probably made locally.
60/1948/61/20
Spears are considered precious items among the pastoral Maasai, however, historically blacksmiths among them were ostracised, even despised.
28/1938/7
A 19th century spear that was once owned by an Nguni warrior from Southern Africa.
49/1929/13
49/1929/17
A spear with a narrow long iron blade.
64/1974/8
A spear called a sokilaki.
37/1996/3
E1766
A barbed spear with a broken tip.
72/2007
According to William Ellis in Polynesian Researches During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the Society and Sandwich islands, (1832, p.
64/1933/3
Spear of a Maasai or Chagga warrior, possibly made by a Chagga smith.
89/1934/10
Spears were the main fighting weapon on the Solomon Islands and were used for thrusting and throwing.
652/1997
This spear was used as either a thrusting or throwing weapon.
87/1936/1/1
Spear of a cavalryman. It is double headed with a spike between the heads, designed to pierce chainmail.
50/1956
Probably used as a throwing spear or javelin.
11/1900/6
Wooden spear with a single row of long barbs.
100/1919/8
Spear donated by big game hunter Charles Victor Alexander Peel in 1919.
100/1919/14