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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.
Classification
  • Projectile Point
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • San
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / South Africa
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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