Width 17 cm. A pair of ceremonial spears , Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, collected 's; finely carved and ochre painted designs. Two Tiwi ceremonial spear tips 76 cm, cm. Spear Thrower woomera , South Eastern Australian origin, late 19th century. Australian indigenous axe heads and spears, Two axe heads found in S.
Queensland, along with NT spear heads. Six Aboriginal artefacts. Length 60 cm adze Show 2 more like this. Four early Aboriginal spear heads slight damage to some of the barbs. Possibly Queensland. Provenance: From a UK collection 60 - 79 cm high Show 3 more like this. Old Aboriginal spear , cm long. Two Aboriginal spears, decorated. Well worked thin acacia, with resin set quartz cutter in handle. Length 93 cm. Ceremonial Aboriginal fish spear. Collected Groote Eylandt s.
Old varnish over natural earth pigments. Three Groote Eylandt ceremonial items. Spear, clapstick and knife. Crudely carved hardwood with hatched decoration in ochre. Probable souvenir items, collected s. Crack through knife 'Blade. Length 64 cm spear Show 1 more like this.
Three old Aboriginal long spears, cm long 3 Show 1 more like this. An Australian Aboriginal ceremonial spear wooden, polychrome decorated. Length cm Show 3 more like this. Aboriginal Desert hardwood ceremonial dance, spears's Kimberley Region, carved decoration, painted ochres. Lengths cm and Group of Aboriginal spears Show 1 more like this. Group of five Aboriginal spear heads, wood, sinew and gum.
Old label attached. Length 4. Show 3 more like this. Aboriginal Flaked Flint spear Tip and stone adze, traces of gum resin and fibre to base. Together with an early stone adze. Adze length Two Aboriginal spears , long form hunting spears. Example one offering finely crafted single barbed head possibly swan river style.
Example one offering finely crafted double sided barbed head with signs of natural pigment decorations remaining tiwi style.
Example two utilises innovative steel blade with netted white line decorations… Show 2 more like this. Aboriginal woomera - spear thrower, wood, reddish brown patina, leaf-shaped flat springboard, the front entirely covered with linear grooved carving using parallel and diagonal motif.
Chip carved suggesting stone tooled… Show 4 more like this. Large Aboriginal woomera - spear thrower, Western Australia, wood, reddish brown patina, leaf-shaped flat springboard, the front entirely covered with linear grooved carving using zigzag motif… Show 4 more like this. Aboriginal woomera - spear thrower, heavy weighted wood, reddish brown patina, flat paddle-shaped body decorated with zigzag motif. Red ochre apparent.
Narrow handle highlights stone tooled surface. No point attached. Beaver may have been harpooned. While many North American native people kept dogs to assist in hunting, the Beothuk appear not to have had dogs. For hunting seals the Beothuk used a special sealing harpoon - called a-a-duth. It consisted of a 3. Formerly, the head was fitted with a stone blade; later they made blades from iron. When a seal was harpooned and the head was embedded in the animal, the shaft was withdrawn and the seal was hauled in by the line.
Fish, particularly salmon, were probably speared. It is possible that the Beothuk also constructed fish weirs, used fish hooks or fished with netting made from rushes or reeds. While the captive Shanawdithit reported that her people considered it the greatest good luck to kill a whale, she did not disclose how they secured such large marine mammals. The Beothuk also had clubs, knife blades hafted to handles, and perforating tools made from beaver incisors, stone splinters and, in historic times, from nails or pieces of broken glass.
Many additional implements or working aids were created from pieces of wood, bark, sticks, roots and shell. While such tools were simple, they were highly functional though easily perishable and have rarely if ever been found by archaeologists. Important components of the Beothuk's strategy for providing food were their methods of preservation.
They cut some of the meat into strips and dried or smoked it to prevent spoiling. In this form it was easy to carry and could be eaten without further preparation. The 2 main spears traded with the people of the Torres Strait islands were the fishing spear and the fighting spear. The fishing spear had 4 bone barbs. The fighting spear had a barbed bone point. The people of the Torres Strait islands also used them for hunting dugong.
Death spear All backed blades were microliths, usually less than 3 cm long, and all appear to have been used for a similar purpose.
It has been suggested that their main use was in rows of barbs along the sides of death spears. These spears were deadly weapons, the barbs causing great blood loss in the victim, human in fighting, animal in hunting. It has been said that they usually couldn't be pulled out, needing to be pushed right through the body, which no doubt caused even more damage. The death spears from museum collections have up to 40 barbs attached to grooves in the spear shaft with gum.
These barbs are unbacked quartz flakes with no secondary working. Evidence from sites such as Sassafras and Currarong indicates that backed blades gradually disappeared about years ago, to be replaced increasingly by quartz flakes.
It is thought that in earlier times backed blades were used as barbs on death spears, evidence for which is the large numbers of backed blades that have been found, the large numbers suggesting they were used for something other than spear points, with so many being used on death spears this could account for the high numbers found. Spear thrower - woomera or atlatl The antiquity of the spear thrower in Australia was pushed back to at least 40, BP some have dates of 60, BP , making it possibly the oldest known use of a spear thrower in the world, when it was discovered that Mungo Man, Lake Mungo 3 WLH 3 , had severe osteoarthritis of the right elbow, spear thrower elbow, a sure sign that the gracile Skelton was indeed a man, right handed, and used a spear thrower for a number of years.
Points Stone points are usually assumed to have been used hafted to the ends of spears. They have been found trimmed on one side unifacial or both sides bifacial. Neither appears to predate the other, both have been found in the same level at sites such as the Yarar Rockshelter in the Northern Territory.
At the Yarar site, the majority of broken points were butts, broken tips being a minority. It appears the rock shelter was a place where spears with broken points were rehafted. Both types of points, which are believed to have been spear points, had similar dimensions of about 3.
They are of a size that could be used on arrows, but no evidence of arrows have been found in Australia. At the time of the European colonisation of Australia spears were being used in northwestern Australia that had stone tips. They were also used in tribal fighting.
Some spear throwers were even used to deflect incoming spears. Incised spear throwers are more valuable than plain ones. Spearthrowers are often carved with lovely traditional motifs. They are collectible as a form of aboriginal art. Aboriginal spear throwers are often called Woomera. Aboriginal shields are the most collectible of all the aboriginal weapons.
This is because they are often covered in intricate designs and show the highest levels of workmanship. There are seven main types of Aboriginal shield. There is two main category of shield types. They were either designed to block projectile weapons like spears or boomerangs or to parry a blow from a club.
Design workmanship and rarity greatly affect the value of a shield. Some shields made as tourist items tend not to be very valuable. Many boomerangs were predominantly for hunting game.
Some boomerangs were specifically for Warfare. Most noteworthy is the number 7 or killer boomerang from Central Australia. The design is to hook onto opponents parrying shield and swing in behind it.
There are 12 main categories of the Aboriginal boomerang. These are covered more in a separate article. Some boomerangs are far more collectible than others. Rare forms of the boomerang and those with great designs are most sort after.
Aboriginal clubs Three main categories of Aboriginal Clubs are for warfare. Throwing Clubs were lethal projectiles and made specifically to throw. Sword clubs are flat in profile and bludgeoning clubs. There is a large variety of Aboriginal clubs.
These are in a separate article and from different regions.
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