Arrow Shaft

29-94-72

From: Sudan

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 29-94-72
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Sudan
Section African
Materials Cane (plant)
Description

With cane shaft, spindle-shaped wooden point, shallow rounded nock; not feathered. Insertion of point in shaft is wrapped with sinew string; so, above nock, and there is a double turn of this string at first node of cane behind point. Cf. Leakey, Jo. Roy. Anthr. Inst. LVI (1926), pl. XXXII, fig. 61.

Length 92.5 cm
Credit Line Received from various sources, pre-1929

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