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Object Number 2018.9.3
Display Title Quiver, arrows, shafts, points
Descriptions
Object Description Quiver; opening edged with dark blue, dark red, red and white glass beads; edges decorated with ostrich eggshell beads; holds 5 small arrows with metal points; also included are 53 arrow shafts, 10 wooden points, and 16 arrow shafts with wooden ends.
Inventory Description Quiver, hide case, sides stitched with shell beads, colored glass beads at rim and on loop, five arrows, cane shafts, sinew wrapped, metal triangular points
Classification
  • Quiver
  • Arrow
Department Ethnographic
Date 1964 or before
Culture
  • San
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia
Additional Geographic Terms Tsum Kwe
Dimensions Overall: 18.5 × 5.3 × 0.5 cm (7 5/16 × 2 1/16 × 3/16 in.)
Quantity 6
Label on object 2018.9.3
Credit Line Gift of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Provenance
Collector Lorna Marshall (1962)
Donor Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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