Bundle of (poison tipped?) arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Apr 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1993 to 1998
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. William F. Wheeler
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William F. Wheeler
notes: label: Notes
content: 28 arrows, made from thin reeds with feather fletching. The tips are bundled together and wrapped with a leaf (now dried). Feather fleche includes crested guinea fowl (Guttera pucherani) and great blue turaco (Corythaeola crestata) (see memo in the accession file regarding faunal identifications). Donor notes that these are used in the crossbow, and were collected from "a different pygmy/?pygmoid group NW of Ituri forest".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Apr 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 28
place: label: Place
content: Ituri Forest, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Efe Pygmy
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2036145
label: USNM Number
content: E432352-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Arrow
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 63 cm