Poison arrows and poison stick

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Object Number 11-43-30/83029

Display Title Poison arrows and poison stick

Descriptions

Inventory Description Carved wooden arrows, plain and barbed, wrapped in husk with fiber ties.

Classification

Arrow

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Woyawoi?

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

South America / Guyana
South America / British Guiana

Materials Wood, Vegetable fiber

Dimensions Overall: 26.6 x 5.4 x 2.8 cm (10 1/2 x 2 1/8 x 1 1/8 in.)

Quantity 24

Label on object 83029

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	10-58-30/82738	Arrow case containing 10 poison arrows and poison stick	Quiver Raw Material	Guyana British Guiana
	985-18-30/11062	Poison arrow set; quiver, arrows,gourd for poison (empty)	Raw Material Quiver	Brazil
	985-18-30/11061	Poison arrow set; quiver, arrows, glass jar with poison	Quiver Raw Material	Brazil
	99-12-50/53202	Poison stick for applying poison to arrows	Tools	South Africa
	39-93-60/6041	7 wooden arrows - some with poison	Arrow	Yejih
	94-57-10/R431	Arrows pointed with black obisidan; shafts have like decorations; poison shaft	Arrow	United States
Media Restricted	12-33-30/84155	Brush for spreading "urah" poison on arrows	Raw Material Brush Shaft, modified	British Guiana Guyana
	18-21-50/B2090	Poison arrows	Raw Material Arrow	Cameroon
	37-32-50/2444	Pods - part of the equipment used in making of the poison used on the arrows of	Floral Raw Material	Cameroon
	14-50-30/86787	Quiver and 25 poison-arrow points	Raw Material Quiver	Guyana British Guiana
	2001.29.30300	Arrows, arrow poison: Quiver with contents laid out on a kaross, including arrow shafts without points, "male" and "female" fire-sticks, two drills, two long arrows with unbarbed points, an arrow-shaft, and six arrows with metal points (print is a cropped image)		Gautscha
	2001.29.30298	Arrows, arrow poison: "/Gao Music" poisoning arrows, showing the bone dish in which the poison is mixed (print is a cropped image)		Gautscha

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