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Object Number 72-20-50/6765
Display Title Arrows with iron points, "poisoned"
Descriptions
Object Description Arrows with iron points, "poisoned"
Inventory Description Arrows, triangular, barbed metal point, wood shaft, feather fletch, fiber wrap
Classification
  • Arrow
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / South Africa
Dimensions Overall: 61.1 x 1.8 x 2.1 cm (24 1/16 x 11/16 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity 8
Label on object 72-20-50/6765; POISON
Provenance
Collector South African Museum
Donor Museum of Comparative Zoology (1872)

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