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2003-32-179

From: New Hebrides (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 2003-32-179
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Hebrides (uncertain)
Section Oceanian
Description

Composite arrow: reed shaft, wood foreshaft, bone (?) point encrusted with black. Top of foreshaft painted light blue, with very fine binding at end near point. Broader, light-colored binding at juncture of shaft and fore-shaft and at end. Not nocked. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. "Oceanie 14099 / 29 fleches empoissonnes [29 poisoned arrows].

Length 87.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1995.X.16520 - Other Number | 14099 - Other Number | CIVIC1995.X.16520P - Other Number

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