Arrow

32-6-220

From: Colombia | Guajira Peninsula

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 32-6-220
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Goajira (Culture)
Provenience Colombia | Guajira Peninsula
Culture Area Circum-Caribbean
Section American
Materials Wood | Metal
Description

Hunting or war arrow. Light wooden shaft; wooden foreshaft, slightly bulbous, decorated with incised lines; the junction of the shaft and foreshaft is covered with a cartridge shell. The point is a two-edged metal blade inserted in the foreshaft, to which it is attached by twine lashing which passes through a hole made in the blade; the edges of the blade near the foreshaft are serrated. The junction of the shaft and foreshaft is lashed with twine; and the point is barbed rather than serrated near the junction with the foreshaft.

Length 98 Measurement Unit Not Provided
Credit Line Colombian Expedition, Gregory Mason, 1932
Other Number 1038 - Other Number

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