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- Museum number
- Oc.6663.a-c
- Description
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Arrows (3) of knotted reed shaft, end having a stalk of grass round them and coat of red colouring. Head of palm wood with ends barbed on two sides with fibre and gum. Parallel longitudinal stripes scored on the shaft.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1865)
- Dimensions
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Length: 121.20 centimetres (A)
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Length: 122.50 centimetres (B)
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Width: 1.20 centimetres (A)
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Width: 1.80 centimetres (B)
- Curator's comments
- Register slip reads:
From San Cristoval, Solomon Isl. Aug. 1865. / Three arrows ........
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Acquisition notes
- From a collection made by Julius Brenchley in 1865 on a cruise of HMS Curacoa around the Pacific, which was divided among Maidstone Museum, the British Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum and Exeter Museum.
Register slip reads:
Presd. by Julius L. Brenchley Esq 24.3.1870 (M.)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.6663.a-c
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1870C1.6663a-c (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1870C0324.295
