Arrow

51-21-4

From: Brazil

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 51-21-4
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Parintintin
Provenience Brazil
Culture Area Amazonia
Section American
Materials Bamboo | Palm Wood (uncertain) | Feather | Pitch
Description

Five arrows, long with large cane of bamboo shafts and foreshafts of hard black palm (?) wood. Feathered with two long feathers, bound with many turns of thread, affixed with pitch. | #4: Long foreshaft with single row of notched barbs. Lower end broken.

Credit Line Gift of Cos Leefmans, 1951

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