weapons: missiles & projectors

Cylindrical wooden quiver containing twelve arrows. Quiver with two wooden caps attached with vegetable fibre which has been threaded through the main body of the quiver creating a strap. Bands of carved geometric decoration on quiver. Group of twelve arrows, each with a wooden shaft with a notched end and feather flights bound with vegetable fibre and an iron arrowhead attached with vegetable fibre? and sealed with resin. (6 leaf shaped arrowheads and 6 triangular arrowheads with 2 integral side barbs and shaft [2 of which are broken each with a barb missing].)

fighting

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1981.425
PLACE
COLLECTION
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; iron; feather; plant fibre
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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