Arrow
2003-32-196
From: New Hebrides (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-196 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Hebrides (uncertain) |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Reed (plant) | Wood | Bone (uncertain) | Bast (uncertain) |
| Description | Composite arrow: slender reed shaft, not nocked, wood foreshaft, bone (?) tip. Reed and tip encrusted, foreshaft black. Circa 4 cm. of foreshaft slightly ridged. Bast (?) binding at juncture of shaft and foreshaft, foreshaft and tip. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. |
| Length | 102.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1995.X.16518D - Other Number | CIVIC1995.X.16518D - Other Number |
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