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- Museum number
- Oc1951,03.19
- Description
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Wood arrow with reed shaft and plain hardwood head including four rows of shallow indentations running round it, vegetable fibre.
- Dimensions
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Length: 118.60 centimetres
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Width: 1.20 centimetres
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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 date
- 1951
- Acquisition notes
- Collected by British Ornithologists' Union expedition.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1951,03.19
