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Object Number
99-12-50/53200
Display Title
Foreshafts and iron points of poisoned arrows
Descriptions
Object Description
Foreshafts and iron points of poisoned arrows
Inventory Description
Projectile points, barbed metal points, reed shafts with caked dirt coating
Classification
- Projectile Point
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1899
Culture
- San
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
South Africa
Materials
Reed, Metal, Fiber, Soil
Dimensions
Overall: 10.4 x 0.7 x 2 cm (4 1/8 x 1/4 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
99-12-50/53200; 53200; POISON
Credit Line
Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance
Boston Museum
Donor
David P. Kimball
Donor
Augusta K. Horton
Donor
L. Cushing Kimball
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 45-43-20/15105 | Stone pointed feather tipped arrows with round foreshafts (8) |
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Mexico
| |
| 45-43-20/15104 | Stone pointed feather tipped wooden arrows with barbed foreshafts (4) |
Arrow
|
Mexico
| |
| 14-5-10/A1205 | Fragments of arrows: foreshafts, shafts, and butts |
Reed
|
Cliff House 2
| |
| 40-1-30/2079 | Foreshafts of arrows of palm - notched points |
Spear
|
Colombia
| |
| 81-5-30/25295 | Arrows, iron points, poisoned? |
Spear
|
South America
| |
| 14-5-10/A1156 | Foreshafts of arrows |
Worked Wood
|
Cliff House 1
| |
| 72-20-50/6765 | Arrows with iron points, "poisoned" |
Arrow
|
South Africa
| |
| 29-20-10/97331 | Decorated wood foreshafts |
Worked Wood
|
Cave
| |
| 18-12-30/F161 | Arrow foreshafts with fish spine points |
Spear
Raw Material |
Brazil
| |
| 47-73-70/2898 | Poisoned arrows - bamboo shaft, carved and painted wooden point |
Arrow
|
Solomon islands
| |
| 99-12-50/53199.1 | Poisoned arrow without iron point |
Arrow
|
South Africa
|