Poisoned Arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Aug 1889
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Erwin H. Richards
label: Donor Name
content: Oberlin College Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Labeled (W.Africa?) Said to be Inhambane. The label was found attached to 2 of a bundle of 40 arrows in a bark-cloth quivver. They are of a type used in Gabon with the cross-bow, and not of a type used in South-east Africa. The arrows are short (29 cm. long) made of thin strips of wood, without metal heads, and feathered with leaves.-- G.D. Gibson The label on the 2 arrows reads: "Poisoned arrows--Cannibals [sic] --W Africa??""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Gabon, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fang
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022262
label: USNM Number
content: E130746-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Arrow