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- Museum number
- Oc2000,02.7
- Description
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Arrow. Barbed with fish or small mammal bone. Originally four sets of three barbs (one barb missing). Wooden core covered with a decorative covering of plaited pandanus strips, dyed red-brown and yellow.
- Production date
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20thC(early)
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1930s (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 123 centimetres
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Width: 2 centimetres
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Depth: 2 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Poor. Some unravelling of the weaving, some of lashing missing, one barb missing.
- Acquisition date
- 2000
- Acquisition notes
- Collected by J.E.F. Burn (marine engineer and photographer) and his wife, Lilian Burn, between 1935-1939, while travelling in the Pacific. Donated by their niece, Gwendoline Coxon, after Mr. Burn's death.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc2000,02.7