Spear

For construction cf. Frizzi, Baessler-Archiv, Sup. VI (1914), Fig. 64, 3rd spear from left. Single tortoise shell barb attached to palmwood shaft by means of a socket of Parinarium gum. The part of the shaft above and below the barb is wrapped with red (dyed) and yellow plant cuticle. Then follows a woven tube of the same material (transverse zigzags), then more wrapping, then a band of the characteristic incised blackened and lime-filled carving: 4 conventionalized human faces, two above and two below separated by 4, 3, 2 chevrons representing body and limbs. Next follows a bulge surrounding the shaft, made of plant fibres smeared with Parinarium gum; then another basketwork tube (zigzags and lozenges) between two wrappings, all of plant cuticle, yellow and red. For the incised ornament and the bulge, etc., see Parkinson, Dreissig Jahe..., p. 503.