Title: Spear and stone fragment

 

Dimensions (cm): 24.5 x 2.2 x 2.2; 6.3 x 5.6 x 2.8

 

Artist: Thomas Heritage

 

Editor:  Rose Santilli

 

Region: Oceania and Asia

 

Description: 

The spear tip replica comes from the East Coast hunting spears and was carved over a number of days and the rock accompanying is a broken fragment of the stone tool used to work the wood.This replica demonstrates the difficulty in recreating the past in the practice of experimental archaeology and in producing a replica using traditional methods to produce a functional and full length, balanced hunting spear.