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- Museum number
- Af.2915.a-s
- Description
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Group of nineteen poisoned arrows made of reed, gut, iron; poison from asclepiadeae (?) seeds.
- Dimensions
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Height: 65.60 centimetres (measured as bundle)
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Width: 4.40 centimetres (measured as bundle)
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Depth: 4.10 centimetres (measured as bundle)
- Curator's comments
- Register and Slip "Thihu. W.C. Africa. From Kew." Given the provenance from T J Hutchinson, west central Africa must refer to the Congo coast, perhaps Angola. It belongs with the quiver and arrrows Af.2914 to 2918. Thihu has not been identified.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af.2915.a-s
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1866C1.2915a-s (old CDMS no.)