Arrow Shaft

Round, slender, straight, dark brown wood; front end smoothly sharpened and blackened; round-bottomed nock c. .38cm, deep,; thick coating of black gum near nock; covers the feathering attachments up to the spiral wrapping of dark red-brown fibre. There is a loose wrap of paper-like fibrous material at start of gum. The first 2.5 cm of the gum is carved or impressed with lines in a crosshatching for 2cm, then to outline 2 rings around shaft, 3 dark brown half feathers inserted in slots in the shaft and bound to it by a fine fibre which passes through the feather in a continous spiral.