arrow (hunting, fishing & trapping)

Child's arrow from the Hadza people of Lake Eyasi, Tanzania. The arrow has a long, thin, cylindrical, wooden shaft that is light in colour and has a small nock in one end. The arrow is unfletched and is tipped with a wad of cloth bound with red thread.

Used by children to shoot at one another.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
11.7.66/29
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 577 mm x 10 mm x 9 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; cloth; thread
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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