Blowgun
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Oct 1972
name: label: Donor Name
content: Sen Bourke B. Hickenlooper
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "This piece of equipment consists of the following: A. Cylindrical section of bamboo filled with roll of palm leaf fiber into which darts are stuck and with carrying cord. B. Darts - made from palm leaf midribs. C. Spherical gourd holding the floss from silk cotton tree, which is wrapped around base of each dart when used. D. Toothed fish jaw to groove darts before use, so point breaks off in the victim. Refer: Stirling, BAE bulletin 117, p. 83-4, a, b." Simple design is incised on gourd.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 25
place: label: Place
content: Peru, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Jivaro (Shuar)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 302395
label: USNM Number
content: E415153-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blowgun / Dart / Quiver