Arrows

Museum number:
9-17913a-e
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4219
Description:
arrows, bamboo; bamboo arrows with banana palm (?) fletching; palm set into splits at end of arrows held in by two bands of plant fiber on either end of split; points are sharpened to small points; look as though arrows have been burned or smoked; (a) lost banana palm; (c&d) have only half of banana palm attached; small arrows probably used for small game such as birds
Donor:
Beth Harnex MacLafferty Blake
Collection place:
Southeast Asia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Arrows (projectiles)
Accession date:
March 11, 1987
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Arrows, accession number 9-17913a-e, described as arrows, bamboo; bamboo arrows with banana palm (?) fletching; palm set into splits at end of arrows held in by two bands of plant fiber on either end of split; points are sharpened to small points; look as though arrows have been burned or smoked; (a) lost banana palm; (c&d) have only half of banana palm attached; small arrows probably used for small game such as birds
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Arrows, accession number 9-17913a-e, described as arrows, bamboo; bamboo arrows with banana palm (?) fletching; palm set into splits at end of arrows held in by two bands of plant fiber on either end of split; points are sharpened to small points; look as though arrows have been burned or smoked; (a) lost banana palm; (c&d) have only half of banana palm attached; small arrows probably used for small game such as birds

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