This spear was made and used by the Waodäni people of Ecuador . It is over eight feet long, with twine wound around a serrated point on one end. Missionaries Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming, and Roger Youderian were killed by the Waodäni with spears like this one in 1957. After friendly relations with the Waodäni were established with Elisabeth Elliot and others, spears were only used for hunting and, in this case, given as gifts to friends. This spear was kept by Elisabeth Elliot as a reminder of her time living among the tribe as a Christian missionary during the 1950s.