Arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Nov 1885
name: label: Donor Name
content: Jules Hebert
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ARROWS, WASSANGORA? EASTERN CONGO. THESE ARE MADE OF THIN STICKS OF SPLIT BAMBOO, SHARPENED AT ONE END AND SMEARED WITH BLACK GOO, POSSIBLY POISONOUS, FEATHERED AT THE BACK WITH TWO TRIANGULAR PIECES OF LEAF. FOR YEARS THESE WERE EXHIBITED IN THE HAND OF THE BAMBARA MAN [MANNEQUIN # E76710A], BUT THEY BORE NO CAT. NO. AND DID NOT BELONG TO THE BOW (WITH ITS ARROWS) WHICH WAS IN THE CASE, SO WERE SEPARATED FROM IT. REFER: HOUGH, SMITH A.R. 1920, PL. 66. KARL WEULE: DER AFRIFANISCHE PFEIL., UNIV. LEIPZIG, 1899, P. 31, B; 42, E,2,A; PL. II NO. 9."
label: Notes
content: These may possibly be part of Accession No. 16748, like the mannequin, so have been tentatively listed as such for research purposes.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Apr 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: East, Congo, Republic of, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016748
label: USNM Number
content: ET107-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Arrow