Spear Collection (#7)

St George and a turkey on a Christmas card
St George and a turkey, with rescued damsel, on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1880s

J A Spear, District Scoutmaster, South Africa

Native American Comanche on horseback. early 19th century

Fetish Doctor, Sierra Leone, West Africa - smiling and holding an array of spears. Date: circa 1930s

Tent Pegging at the Royal Tournament
Tent-pegging at the Royal Tournament, the annual event when the best of the Armed Forces displayed their skills. Date: 1932

Somali boys practicing spear throwing
Somali boys at one of their first lessons in spear throwing. Date: circa 1910

Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni censuring a Romanized Briton
Boudicca or Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, censuring a Romanized Briton. circa 60 AD

Ancient Egyptian costume. From left to right: woman and man in ordinary clothing, Numidian woman, baby and man, aristocratic Egyptian man, three native Egyptian men. BCE

Sao Vicente - Two Cape Verde Islanders
Sao Vicente - Cape Verde Islands (the Republic of Cabo Verde). Finally gained independence from Portugal in 1975. Date: circa 1910

Chicago Worlds Fair - Republic Statue - Statue holding winged Orb and Spear. Part of Box 282 Boswell Collection - Chicago Exposition. Date: 1893

Greek warrior. Hellenistic. 1st century BC. From Rhodes. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Java War or Diponegoro War. 1825-1830. Spear rack of Governor-General Jean Chretien Baud (1789-1859). Java. 1824. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Netherlands

Mastaba of Nefer and Kahay. Relief. Fighters on a boat. Egyp
Mastaba of Nefer and Kahay. Polychromed relief depicting fighters on a boat. 5th Dynasty. Old Kingdom. Saqqara. Egypt

Mastaba of Nefer and Kahay. Relief. Fighters. Egypt
Mastaba of Nefer and Kahay. Polychromed relief depicting fighters. 5th Dynasty. Old Kingdom. Saqqara. Egypt

Greek art. Panathenaic amphora. Black figures. Riders throwing spears. 400 BC. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Angel with a spear by Domenico Guides. Sant Angelo Bridge. R
Italy. Rome. Angel with a spear by Domenico Guides. Sant Angelo Bridge

Lions hunt relief. Sakcegozu Palace. Hitite. 750 BC
Relief depicting a lions hunt. 750 BC. Basalt. Detail. From the Palace of Sakcegozu, Anatolia. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Italian Costume 1380
Italian costume: garments worn with armour include parti- coloured soled hose, gipon or doublet, tight-fitting garment without sleeves or with short raglan sleeves & buckles. Date: 1380

Officers sword, 51st Foot, 1809 (c); blade is curved, flat backed, unfullered with a spear point, and is double edged for the last 10 in; steel stirrup guard; steel hilt mounts

Natives of Fiji and Tahiti with tattoos.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Costumes of the Nama people of South Africa.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Chagga warriors of Tanzania with weapons.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

An officer of King Kamehameha II of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Egyptian chieftain in turban and robes, and a Mamluk warrior.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Three Shilluk Warriors of the Upper Nile, Sudan, Africa - bearing traditional weapons and displaying feather-topped topknots (one bearing the full head of what appears to be a crane) Date: circa 1910s

Upoto Warriors - Congo, Africa
Warriors from Upoto, Congo, Africa. Date: circa 1903

A Young man of the Kenyan Kikuyu Tribe, East Africa. They form the largest ethnic group in Kenya and speak the Bantu Kikuyu language as a mother tongue. Date: circa 1910s

Magnolia sp. fossil magnolia leaf
A fossil magnolia leaf from the Upper Cretaceous, Senonian, leaf from Harz, Saxony. Specimen 240 mms long

Bayeux Tapestry. 1066-1077. Transport of weapons and wine on a cart. Detail. Romanesque art. Tapestry. FRANCE. Bayeux. Archaeological Museum

SWEDEN. Tanum. Litsleby Rock. The god of spear and boats. Bronze Age. Cave; Petroglyph

Egypt - Bisharin warrior, Aswan
A Bisharin Tribesman of Aswan, Egypt with his shield, spear and small Egyptain lyre. Date: circa 1910s

Anti-British cartoon, withdrawal from Gallipoli, WW1
An Anti-British cartoon by a German cartoonist, showing an English sailor-sealion being ejected from Gallipoli by a Turkish soldier during the First World War. Date: 1916

Ancient Irish Costume
A man and woman of ancient Ireland, well wrapped in their cloaks against the cold : he carries a spear against dangerous encounters. Date: early centuries AD

Ethiopia - Emperor Meneliks Bodyguard - seemingly at an International Exhibition (!)

The Zulu wars. A Zulu blacksmith forging an assegai
Scene depicting a Zulu making a spear in a fire and shaping it into the famous zulu weapon. Male and female zulus are in the foreground, while two European men watch in the background

Medieval Spearman
A Spearman steadies himself to throw a short spear. A small round shield protects him from enemy arrows

Male Type / Noble Savage
The noble savage type: Te-Po, a chief of Rarotonga, with extensive tattoos and carrying a spear

Tuareg Warrior
A Touareg warrior of Algeria or Morocco with sword and spear

Greek vase -- warriors with horse and dog
The design on a Greek vase, depicting two warriors with a horse and a dog. It was found in Tiryns, an archaeological site in Mycenae

Ulrich von Liechtenstein, German Minnesanger
Ulrich von Liechtenstein, German nobleman, knight, politician and Minnesinger (writer and performer of love songs)

An Abyssinian Chief Attacking a Foot Soldier. 1817

Ashanti native costume, West Africa. 19th century

Finlander and bear. 1817

A Family of New South Wales, Australia. 1817

A Birman Horseman. 1817

Happy Families - Spears Games box. circa 1920s

Gad, Old Testament patriarch, in Thomas Bankes Bible, Plate VIII. 1787

Karnak, Luxor, Egypt - Victory Tableau - Ramesses II
Karnak Thebes (modern Luxor), Egypt - a wall relief (from the Victory Tableau) illustrating Pharoah Ramesses II smiting his enemies! Date: circa 1910s

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