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- Museum number
- Af1947,16.208
- Description
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Composite arrow, with cane shaft with metal bindings, leaf feathers and leafshaped iron blade, grooved, six barbs on socket.
- Dimensions
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Height: 49 centimetres
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Width: 1.60 centimetres
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Depth: 0.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1947:
Another [like Af1947,16.207], leafshaped blade, grooved, 6 barbs on socket.
200-213 AKKA pygmies, Congo forest.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1947
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1947:
Collected by the late C W Hobley, CMG, probably all between 1890 and 1910 by which date he had formed his "museum".
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1947,16.208