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- Museum number
- Af1914,-.69
- Description
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Poisoned arrow made of iron, wood, sinew, lacquer (?), feather.
- Dimensions
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Height: 58 centimetres
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Width: 2.20 centimetres
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Depth: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Ethdoc 298 - Letter R B Woosnam/Fagan 13 May 1914
'...the bow, quiver of arrows & the two Rhinoceros horns with loop of skin attached ... belong to Somali hunters who come from Italian Somaliland into British East Africa to hunt Elephants & Rhinoceroses ... The arrows are very beautifully made & are poisoned with a poison which is obtained from a tree & when fresh is really very fatal... There is also a small horn full of poison...'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1914
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on Af1914,-.68
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1914,-.69
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1914C3.69 (old CDMS no.)
