Partially completed blowgun; Rundasi; 2 halves fitted together, wrapped with twine and joints rosined; mouthpiece attached; 8th stage in making blowgun; 40.25 inches long.
Donor:
Joyce Nies, Paul L. Powlison, Robert L. Russell, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Peru
Verbatim coll. place:
Peru
Culture or time period:
Yagua
Collector:
Paul L. Powlison and Summer Institute of Linguistics
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Blowguns
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1963
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966) and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)