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Object Number 83-14-30/30163
Display Title Blow gun
Descriptions
Inventory Description Blowgun, long wood tube, wrapped with red pigmented bark, fiber wrap 1 end
Classification
  • Blowgun
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Amazonian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Brazil
Additional Geographic Terms Amazon
Dimensions Overall: 270.5 x 31.3 x 3 cm (106 1/2 x 12 5/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 83-14-30/30163
Provenance
Collector Lemuel Capen (1825 - 1883)
Collector Mr. John B. Sparhawk (1825 - 1883)
Donor Mrs. John B. Sparhawk (1883)

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