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2003-32-163.1

From: New Hebrides (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 2003-32-163.1
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Hebrides (uncertain)
Section Oceanian
Description

One of a bundle of 4 arrows wrapped in a strip of bark. Composite: reed shaft, wood foreshaft, bone (?) point (missing). Black encrustation. Foreshaft carved with notches, red pigment. Not nocked. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900.

Length 100.2 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1995.X.16517A - Other Number | CIVIC1995.X.16517A - Other Number

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