Part of pirana mandible; mit,tu, handa; used to score darts behind poison so tip will break off in monkeys and birds; attached to 16-9740.
Donor:
Joyce Nies, Paul L. Powlison, Robert L. Russell, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Peru
Verbatim coll. place:
Peru
Collector:
Paul L. Powlison and Summer Institute of Linguistics
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fish bone
Accession date:
1963
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966), S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965), and S1971-1972 #4: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 12, 1971–July 26, 1971)