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- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.1064
- Description
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Composite bird arrow with rattan shaft and wooden head bound together with cane strips. Hourglass-shaped head with flat top and three narrow bands carved in raised relief at centre. Cane strips wound over join between shaft and head stained black-brown with vertical linear stripes of dark brown extending down top section of shaft; remaining shaft red-brown colour. Six vertical bands of horizontal linear incisions at base of shaft.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2 centimetres (head)
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Diameter: 1 centimetres (shaft)
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Length: 103.50 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1906,1013.1064
