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- Museum number
- Oc1939,05.180
- Description
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Arrow with a single barbed wood head and a reed shaft. The junction of the arrow is lashed with a soft fibre.
- Dimensions
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Length: 118.70 centimetres
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Width: 1.20 centimetres
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Depth: 1.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1939
‘Pygmy arrows. Mimika’ – old label.
Collected from the Mimika River region, Southern Netherlands, New Guinea. Collected by the late A.F.R Wollaston on the Ornithological Expedition, 1910 (cf. series 1912.0611, 1922.10-18).
See Wollaston, ‘Pygmies and Papuans’. Haddon & Layard, ‘Ethnographical Collections, Utakwa River, New Guinea’. Rawling, ‘Land of the New Guinea Pygmies’, Eth. Doc. 1018.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1939,05.180