Darts
Container
75-32-1B
From: Colombia | Buenaventura | Bogota
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 75-32-1B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Arhuaco (uncertain) |
| Provenience | Colombia | Buenaventura | Bogota |
| Culture Area | Circum-Caribbean |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Reed (uncertain) | String | Cotton |
| Description | Part of blow-gun and dart outfit. Cylindrical reed (bamboo?), wrapped with string 3/4 of the way from the bottom. Thin braided rope handle. Cotton inside (same cotton as in gourd). Contains darts for blowgun - some with poisoned tips. Darts are sharpened at tip, are slender, and average 27.5 cm long. Container has vertical crack. |
| Height | 28.75 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 4.37 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of R. P. Kroon, 1975 |
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