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- Museum number
- Oc.4800.a
- Description
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Arrow made of reed, wood, grass (?).
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1870)
- Dimensions
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Height: 109.70 centimetres
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Width: 0.80 centimetres
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Depth: 0.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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See Simpson 2020 for an argument why this object may have been collected by Frederick Whipple.
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Christy collection registration slip, written in the 1860s?:
Torres Straits, Darnley Islands
Three arrows, 3 ft 7 in, 4 ft 1in and 4 ft 3 1/2 in long respectively. Reed shafts with plain butt ends. Their upper ends bound with plaited strips of grass?. Dark fibrous wood heads, differently barbed.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1860-1869
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.4800.a
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc186?C1.4800a-c (old CDMS no.)
