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- Museum number
- Af1978,22.764.b-o
- Description
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Collection of fourteen arrows; bamboo shafts, barbed metal heads. One head (j) has four edges, with no barbs. Heads and shafts bound together with vegetal fibre and covered with dung or clay. Triangular tips at opposing end, for firing, bound with vegetal fibre. Arrows i) and j) have no firing tips.
- Production date
- 1850-1927
- Dimensions
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Length: 53 centimetres (max)
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Width: 1 centimetres (max)
- Curator's comments
- With quiver 1978.Af.22.764.a, and nine cane lengths 1978.Af.22.764.p-x.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1978,22.764.b-o