Wooden quiver bound and capped with leather and with leather carrying thong. Made by women and used by Morani and elders. Contains 6 arrows, 5 with wood shafts and one bamboo. All with feathered flights except bamboo one. Leaf-shaped steel points on all arrows, but two are poisoned with a root boiled with water in a sufia kept for that purpose. Red colouring around flights is paint made of the flowers of the tree 'Ikupoket'.
quiver (hunting, fishing & trapping); arrows (hunting, fishing & trapping)
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