Arrow
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 May 2013
label: Collection Date
content: 1972
name: label: Collector
content: Richard Feinberg
label: Donor Name
content: Richard Feinberg
notes: label: Notes
content: Arrow made with reed shaft, and carved wood head, wrapped with cord. Head has 4 barbs.
label: Notes
content: Two barbed arrow (arrow ngatao; barb tara )to be used with bow (pana paka pitit) - made with reed shaft (reed - te kao; shaft - kau) and coconut wood head. Lashing with cordage from inner bark of kirivakai tree (lashing - pau). Piti - word used by Anuta for Santa Cruz people; Pana is general word for shooter; Men and used by men - rarely used in the 1970s; not anything commonly used in Anuta - something that they associate with Melanesians. During a fight with Tikipia (check spelling) - the Tikopians bought a bunch of bows and came to Anuta to fight them. See Oral Traditions of Anuta 1998. (Per curator Joshua Bell; notes from speaking to Feinberg, Aug 16, 2012.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anuta Island, Solomon Islands, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Anutan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2059846
label: USNM Number
content: E433258-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Arrow
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 98 cm
label: Diameter
content: 1.3 cm