Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID |
59.1559 |
Object Name |
Arrow |
Date |
1850-1959 |
Material |
Reed/Sinew/Asphaltum/Wood |
Description |
Arrow with sharpened wooden tip all feather flights missing. Hollow wooden/reed shaft with notch in tail end for bow string, arrow tip wrapped with leather or sinew, hollow end designed for insertion of a sharpened wooden tip. Tip is painted with black pitch. |
Dimensions |
L-58.7 Dia-0.8 cm |
Found |
Africa |
Place of Origin (if different than Found) |
Africa |
Provenance |
Provenance unknown. Accessioned into the collections in 1959. Source unknown. |
Collection |
Anthropology; Africa |