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- Museum number
- Oc1951,03.12
- Description
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Arrow with a reed shaft and wood foreshaft including carved barbs. A sting-ray spine has been spliced within the foreshaft. No nock or feather.
- Dimensions
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Length: 145 centimetres
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Width: 1.20 centimetres
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Depth: 1.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1951
Utakwa-Mimika River District, Dutch New Guinea.
Obtained on the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition, 1910. Obtained by donor from C.B. Kloss.
See A.F.R Wollaston, "Pygmies and Papuans," C.G. Rawling, "The Land of the New Guinea Pygmies", Haddon & Layard, "Ethnographical Collections, Utakwa River, New Guinea."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1951
- Acquisition notes
- Collected by British Ornithologists' Union expedition.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1951,03.12
