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Wooden arrowhead or spearhead with 3 sets of 4 large barbs and 20 sets of 4 smaller barbs. Tip and bone barbs, partly detatched with the remains bound with vegetable fibre and sealed with resin. Base end tapers to a point and is partially bound with vegetable fibre.
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