Spears Collection (page 4)

c. 1890s - tribal dancers in costume, drums and spears
c.1890s - tribal dancers in costume with drums and spears, unidentified location but from a series of India images

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

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

The Coat of Arms of Aberdeen and view of Balmoral Castle Date: circa 1900

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

Roman sporting combat - jousting in chariots
Roman sporting combat - jousting with spears in chariots - one of the many varied entertainments available at ones local amphitheatre

Fulup man with weapons and Mandingo man in robe and turban.. 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

Sudan - Africa - Men and Women at Lado Enclave Date: circa 1910

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

The Shilluk Tribe - Sudan, Africa
The Shilluk (who now prefer to be known as Chollo), are a major Nilotic ethnic group of Southern Sudan, living on both banks of the river Nile, in the vicinity of the city of Malakal

Tasmanian aborigines attacking a settlers hut. 1870

Vietnam - Muong People
Vietnam - Warriors of the Muong People from the Hoa Binh Province and the mountainous districts of Thanh Hoa Province in the north of the country. Date: circa 1910s

Mali - Tuareg men from Timbucktu
Mali - Two Tuareg men from Timbucktu, holding spears. The Tuareg are a Berber nomadic pastoralist people, known as the People of the Veil

Aden - Somaili Warriors
Aden - Somalia - Somali Soldiers

Philippines - Igorote Chieftain. Igorot are the people of the Cordillera region, on the Philippino Island of Luzon. The smaller group of the Igorot live in the east and north of the Island

Cyrus the Great
CYRUS II (THE GREAT) Overthrew Croesus Kingdom of Lydia. Led a successful conquest of Babylon (539) and freed Jewish captives

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

Decius Magius of Capua opposing Carthaginian domination
SECOND PUNIC WAR : Decius Magius of Capua reproaches his countrymens cowardice in accepting Carthaginian domination without resistance

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

An Abyssinian Chief Attacking a Foot Soldier. 1817

A Family of New South Wales, Australia. 1817

Happy Families - Spears Games box. circa 1920s

Henry V - title page - with his army in France. 1862

Henry V - army on horseback. 1862

Melchizedek bringing forth bread and wine
Melchizedek, King of Salem, bringing forth bread and wine and blessing Abram (Abraham) - Thomas Bankes Bible, Genesis 14.19. 1787

Troilus and Cressida - title page - Cressida handed over to the Greeks. 1862

Battle of Hastings re-enactment. With cross-gartered jeans and dyed sackcloth doublets, the students of Kent and Sussex Universities re-enact the battle 900 years later. Date: 14 October 1066

Fantastic Adventures - Warrior Queen of Mars
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1950, featuring the story Warrior Queen of Mars by Alexander Blade. Two women rise their spears attacking on something

Vietnam - Fisher Children - Vung Tau
Vietnam - The Children of Fishermen - Vung Tau a seaside city of Ba Rị aVung Tau Province in Southern Vietnam, formerly known (during the period of French Colonial occupation)

Fantastic Adventures - The Man from yesterday
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, August 1948, featuring the story The Man from yesterdayr by Lee Francis. Two dishabille men are fighting in the jungle with spears

The King of Michoacan visit to Hernan Cortes. Colored engrav
The King of Michoacan visit to Hernan Cortes. Third letter of Relation by Hernan Cortes (May 15, 1522). Colored engraving, 18th century

The King of Michoacan visit to Hernan Cortes. Engraving
The King of Michoacan visit to Hernan Cortes. Third letter of Relation by Hernan Cortes (May 15, 1522). Engraving, 18th century

Dyak warrior from the island of Borneo. Wearing traditional clothing. Date: 1890

Anglo-Zulu War
Zulu warriors in full battle dress carrying shields and spears, preparing for war against the British. Date: 1879

Wounded Buffalo C1830
A horrid spectacle : a buffalo stands, fatally wounded by the spears of its human predators. Date: circa 1830

Protestants Drowned
Protestants are forced into the sea at Terawley by Catholics with spears and are drowned. Date: 1601

Mameena dramatised by Oscar Asche
Promotional postcard for Mameena dramatised by Oscar Asche from Rider Haggards novel, Child of Storm. (1913) First produced at the Globe Theatre, 30th September 1914. Date: 1914

Samuel Baker, explorer in East Africa, with his wife Florence, near the Karuma Falls. The natives assume he is Spekes brother, because their beards are similar. Date: circa 1864

Spaniard and Spanish woman with shield and spears.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity

Roman military trophies and rewards with soldier and winged victory.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of

Comb of St Hildegard
Comb of St. Hildegard.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889

Group of Camacan people of Bahia, Brazil.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Xhosa man in grass belt and woman suckling a baby.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

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

Arab military exercises: mounted cavalry charging.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Chukchi hunters with bow, arrows, spears and hunting dogs.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Yakut men with bows, arrows and spears, and a shaman.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

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