Blowgun
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Jan 2009
label: Collection Date
content: 1985
name: label: Collector
content: Kenneth R. Anderson
label: Donor Name
content: Kenneth R. Anderson
notes: label: Notes
content: Two halves of the wood body are bound together with 6 kinds of bark strips. The mouth end is covered in reptile skin held on with resin. Condition: the resin is dry and crumbly, the bark is splitting in a few places, particularly around the mouthpiece.
label: Notes
content: According to Mr. Anderson and a letter from Samuel Caento Padilla, a mestizo Waorani who sent it to the US it was made in 1971 by Awa, the brother of Menga, who is on the cover of the Peter Broeniman book, Auca on the Cononoco: Indians of the Ecuadoran Rain Forest. Ewa was asked by Samuel to put a new cover on it. "It has killed many many monkeys and papagayos tucans and other animals."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cononoco River, Ecuador, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Waorani (Auca)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2048273
label: USNM Number
content: E432091-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blowgun
physicalDescription: label: Length - Barrell
content: 282 cm
label: Height - Barrell
content: 8 cm