Arrow

Museum number:
11-1343
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Accession number:
Acc.371
Description:
Long plain reed arrow. Wooden foreshaft, wound and set with whorls of barbs.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Solomon Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Melanesia
Culture or time period:
Melanesian
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Reed and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Arrows (projectiles)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
May 1909
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1958-1959 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (April 3, 1959–unknown), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1967-1968 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 15, 1968–February 15, 1968), and S1971-1972 #4: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 12, 1971–July 26, 1971)
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Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Arrow, accession number 11-1343, described as Long plain reed arrow. Wooden foreshaft, wound and set with whorls of barbs.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Arrow, accession number 11-1343, described as Long plain reed arrow. Wooden foreshaft, wound and set with whorls of barbs.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 11-1343, described as Long plain reed arrow. Wooden foreshaft, wound and set with whorls of barbs.

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