On Sunday 21 August, the Gardens, Animal Walk, Butterfly House and UrbanCrazy Golf will be closed for The Original Jerk Cookout. Visitors to the Museum will need to use the London Road gates.
Composite spear with a wooden shaft, into which is socketed a bi-facially flaked obsidian blade, which has been broken across the tip. The head is fixed in place with parinarium nut putty, which has then been decoratively wrapped with fine thread in a chequered diamond pattern. The entire surface of the head has been painted with red and white mineral pigments.
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These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
The database sometimes uses language taken from historical documents to help research, which may now appear outdated and even offensive. The database also includes information on objects that are considered secret or sacred by some communities.
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