Spear head
Made from reused bottle glass in about 1950. These spearheads were first made after the arrival of the Europeans in the early 19th century. The glass came from the filament of overhead pylons. The edge was created using a technique known as pressure-flaking.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 33/1953/49/1
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Collection Area Region
- W
- Material
- bottle glass
- Common Name
- spear head
- Simple Name
- spear head
- Production Town
- Turkey Creek
- Production County
- East Kimberley
- Production Country
- Australia
