Arrow
- Museum number:
- 5-6966
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050006966
- Alternate number:
- 93 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2155
- Description:
- Native name: nzabo-small bird arrow Arrow; reed shaft with 4 barbed point base of wood and woven twine coated with chalky substance; extended wood point inserted and tied to shaft with twine and sinew; 3 guinea hen feathers; l. 60 cm. Materials: reed, wood, guinea hen feathers, twine, sinew coated with withe chalky substance Used by young men to kill birds for eating and sometimes for feathers. This one for small birds. Made by men
- Donor:
- Ronald J. Clarke and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Ukambani, Kenya
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa; Kenya; Ukambani; Kamba (Murdock...44:2)
- Culture or time period:
- Kamba
- Collector:
- Ronald J. Clarke
- Collection date:
- 1964
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Arrows (projectiles)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1966
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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