Spearhead
This spearhead is made out of bottle glass. The Australian Aborigines used this material as an alternative to stone for making tools and weapons. The fine shaping was due to the careful application of pressure to the edges of the glass to force small flakes of away from the surface.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 1897/1/2/2
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Material
- glass
- Common Name
- spearhead
- Simple Name
- spearhead
- Production Town
- Derby
- Production County
- North West Australia
- Production Country
- Australia