Arrow
2003-32-210
From: Solomon Islands | Santa Cruz Islands (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-210 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Solomon Islands | Santa Cruz Islands (uncertain) |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Description | Composite arrow: reed shaft, hard wood point. Nocked. Very fine binding at juncture between shaft and point, covered with some sort of sealant. Wood carved with relief points, incised chevrons, etc. Red, white, black pigment. 4.7 cm. at tip bound and sealed, with two tiny backward-facing barbs. Bone point broken off? Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. |
| Length | 115.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1995.X.16519L - Other Number | CIVIC1995.X.16519L - Other Number |
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