Arrow
2003-32-167
From: New Hebrides (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-167 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Hebrides (uncertain) |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Description | Composite arrow: reed shaft, wood foreshaft, bone (?) point encrusted with black. Top of foreshaft painted light blue, criss-crossed with very fine binding. Broader, light-colored binding at juncture of shaft and fore-shaft and at end. Nocked. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. "Oceanie 14099 / 29 fleches empoissonnes [29 poisoned arrows]. |
| Length | 86.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1995.X.16520 - Other Number | 14099 - Other Number | CIVIC1995.X.16520D - Other Number |
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