Arrow - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 76117

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Plant Name 200.00 POACEAE Miscanthus Entry Book Number 4.2000.55
Artefact Name Arrow Vernacular Name
Iso Country Papua New Guinea TDWG Region Papua New Guinea
Parts Held Arrow Geography Description Papua New Guinea, Asia Tropical, Malesia
Uses ArrowUse: MATERIALS User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS
Storage Bottles etc, outsize Related Items
Donor Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes
Collector Klappe S Collector No 229
Collection Notes Collection Date 00/00/1999
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Arrow head from wild palm wood (Palmae), tied with climbing fern Lygodium sp. Shaft hardened in fire and decorated with burn patterns. Binding fixed with glue from breadfruit tree sap Artocarpus sp, and ashes, and decorated with fringe of palm leaves Li, cuala sp. Part of a collection from Stefanie Klappe as part of an MSc in Ethnobotany.
Determinations:153.05 MORACEAE Artocarpus sp
    187.00 PALMAE
    187.00 PALMAE Licuala sp
    200.00 POACEAE Miscanthus
    307.00 SCHIZAEACEAE Lygodium sp

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