Carved wooden spear of palm wood tapering to a point cut off 15 cm below head. the fore shaft bears a panel of relief engraving depicting two human faces above seven distinctive chevron ridges. Several hoops of fibre binding remain on the head and the root of several bone barbs remain where the barbs have been broken off.
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