Arrow with bamboo shaft with burnished linear decoration and a notched end. Wooden head with 8 sets of 4 bone barbs attached to head with vegetable fibre binding sealed with resin to a tapering tip bound with vegetable fibre. Head attached to shaft with vegetable fibre binding sealed with resin.
Arrow with bamboo shaft and hardwood foreshaft with bone barbs.
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