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Object Number 29-75-50/H937
Display Title Hunter's arrows
Descriptions
Inventory Description Arrows, ridged metal point, spiral stem, skin covered haft, feather remnants
Classification
  • Arrow
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Mano
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia
Dimensions Overall: 76.1 x 2.5 x 1 cm (29 15/16 x 1 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 29-75-50/H/937
Provenance
Collector Dr. George W. Harley (1927)
Seller Dr. George W. Harley (1927-1929)

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Hunting: Man demonstrating the release of an arrow from a bow, wearing an extra skin that hunters wear around their waists to hold arrows so they can reach them quickly, with a termite mound under a tree in the background
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Hunting: Man demonstrating the release of an arrow from a bow, wearing an extra skin that hunters wear around their waists to hold arrows so they can reach them quickly, with a termite mound under a tree in the background
2001.29.1974 Hunting: Man demonstrating the release of an arrow from a bow, wearing an extra skin that hunters wear around their waists to hold arrows so they can reach them quickly, with a termite mound under a tree in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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