| Object Number | 18054 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Easter Island |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Obsidian |
| Description | Large flaked obsidian spear point with tang and crescentic cutting edge. Such points seem to have appeared on Easter Island after A.D. 1600 during a period of prolonged internal strife. Based on native testimony and ethnographic specimens, they functioned as spear points hafted to wooden shafts of variable length (Jesse D. Jennings, The Prehistory of Polynesia, pp. 149-150), |
| Height | 2.4 cm |
| Length | 12.5 cm |
| Width | 11.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of William Pepper, 1891 |
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