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Object Type
Museum number: Oc1951,03.19
Description: Wood arrow with reed shaft and plain hardwood head including four rows of shallow indentations running round it, vegetable fibre.
Production ethnic group
Excavator/field collector: Field Collection by: British Ornithologists' Union; Field Collection by: Cecil Boden Kloss
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Utakwa, River; Found/Acquired: Mimika River
Materials: wood; reed; fibre
Dimensions: Length: 118.60 centimetres; Width: 1.20 centimetres; Depth: 1.10 centimetres
Curator's comments: Register 1951 Wood arrow with reed shaft and plain hardwood head including four rows of shallow nicks running round it. 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 name
Acquisition date: 1951
Acquisition notes: Collected by British Ornithologists' Union expedition.
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Oc1951,03.19

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