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- Museum number
- Oc1913,1115.187
- Description
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Arrow made of cane, wood, bone, vegetable fibre, palm leaf, resin.
- Dimensions
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Length: 99.40 centimetres
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Width: 0.80 centimetres
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Depth: 0.80 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Acquisition notes
- Louis-Joseph Bouge (1878-1960) was a French colonial administrator and scholar-collector who served in New Caledonia in 1899, in Vanuatu from 1906 and in Tahiti from 1915. In 1913 he sold a collection of about 374 objects to the British Museum, about 250 from Melanesia, including 180 from Vanuatu and the rest from New Caledonia and Solomon Islands.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1913,1115.187