Arrow Shaft

Cf. 29-94-65. Head missing. Slender wooden shaft. Split feathers (3), caught at each end by fiber lashing, bound spirally to shaft between. Deep nock. For distribution of this type of feathering, see Frobenius and v. Hilm, Atlas Africanus, VI, B1.35, and cf. Leakey, New Classification of Bow and Arrow in Africa, Jo. Roy, Anthr. Inst. 1926 (LVI), pp. 280, 288, 291, and 299. This arrow came from Umlauff, Hamburg, numbered 930, and marked Bussera. According to Sir, H. N. Johnston (map at end of Vol. II, "George Greenfell and the Congo") the people on the Busira (Juapa) are chiefly Balolo groups.