Arrow
2003-32-220
From: Solomon Islands (uncertain) | Northern Solomon Islands (uncertain) | Bougainville (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-220 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Solomon Islands (uncertain) | Northern Solomon Islands (uncertain) | Bougainville (uncertain) |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Description | Composite arrow: reed shaft, black hardwood point, lashed-on bone (?) barbs. Originally five barbs - two have broken off at base, one half way. Below the barbs, 6 cm. of decorative woven wrapping, brown and natural, in geometric patterns. Criss-cross binding at juncture of point and shaft, and at end of shaft. Not nocked. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. |
| Length | 125.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1995.X.16519H - Other Number | CIVIC1995.X.16519H - Other Number |
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