Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID |
59.1553 |
Object Name |
Arrow |
Date |
1850-1959 |
Material |
Reed/Sinew |
Description |
Arrow with hand-forged metal tip. Remains of four feather flights eaten away by insect activity. Wooden shaft with notch in tail end for bow string. Lanceolate-shaped, hand-forged iron tip with tang which extends into shaft of arrow and has split the wood. Tip hafted to shaft with hardened leather thong. |
Dimensions |
W-1.5 L-53.3 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 |
Search Terms |
Metalwork hand-forged |