Cane arrow; hardwood foreshaft with poisoned bone point a. cane sheath.
Donor:
Gladys Ayer Nomland and Jorgen O. Nomland
Collection place:
Goajira Peninsula, Colombia
Verbatim coll. place:
Goajira Indians, Goajira Peninsula, Venezuela and Colombia
Culture or time period:
Wayuu (Goajira)
Collector:
Gladys Ayer Nomland and Jorgen O. Nomland
Collection date:
February 1931
Materials:
Hardwood
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Arrows (projectiles)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
1931
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)