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2003-32-196

From: New Hebrides (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 2003-32-196
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Hebrides (uncertain)
Section Oceanian
Materials Reed (plant) | Wood | Bone (uncertain) | Bast (uncertain)
Description

Composite arrow: slender reed shaft, not nocked, wood foreshaft, bone (?) tip. Reed and tip encrusted, foreshaft black. Circa 4 cm. of foreshaft slightly ridged. Bast (?) binding at juncture of shaft and foreshaft, foreshaft and tip. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900.

Length 102.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1995.X.16518D - Other Number | CIVIC1995.X.16518D - Other Number

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