arrow;
shaft
- Museum number
- Af1960,20.119.a-d
- Description
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Four composite arrows, [formerly] joined with wire. [a] Reed shaft, broken at the butt. Bone foreshaft connecting with a wooden shank, bound with sinew, into which an iron blade is tanged.[b] Reed shaft and bone foreshaft only single feather bound to the butt with sinew.[c] Arrow with reed shaft and bone foreshaft only single feather bound to the butt with sinew. [d] Shaft of feather only, bone foreshaft missing.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 66.80 centimetres (b) longest)
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Width: 2.50 centimetres (d) widest)
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Depth: 1 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1960
One of four composite arrows, joined with wire. Reed shaft, broken at the butt. Bone foreshaft connecting with a wooden shank, bound with sinew, into which an iron blade is tanged.
Register 1960
One of four composite arrows, joined with wire. Reed shaft and bone foreshaft only single feather bound to the butt with sinew.
Register 1960
One of four composite arrows, joined with wire. Similar to [Af1960,20.119] (b) [- arrow with reed shaft and bone foreshaft only single feather bound to the butt with sinew].
Register 1960
One of four composite arrows, joined with wire. Shaft of feather only, bone foreshaft missing.
"Poisoned arrows used by Bushmen. South African Museum. RW Rawson Esq."
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- a) point broken. One loose feather, bagged up.
- Acquisition date
- 1960
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1960,20.119.a-d
