A Ron spear Bauchi Province

A Ron spear

Bauchi Province, Nigeria

with a stepped iron blade with incised 'X' decoration and with barbed ends, with a wooden shaft with hide bindings and a metal counter weight end, with Liverpool and Norwich Castle Museums labels,

145cm long.

Provenance

Arthur Holdsworth Groom, District Officer, Nigeria 1905 - 1917.

Loaned to the Castle Museum, Norwich in 1911.