Arrow (reinforced war arrow) - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 76119 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Caryota rumphiana | Entry Book Number | 4.2000.57 | |
| Artefact Name | Arrow (reinforced war arrow) | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Papua New Guinea | TDWG Region | Papua New Guinea | ||
| Parts Held | Arrow (reinforced war arrow) | Geography Description | Papua New Guinea, Asia Tropical, Malesia | ||
| Uses | Arrow (reinforced war arrow)Use: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles etc, outsize | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Klappe S | Collector No | 448 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/1999 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Arrowhead from black palm wood, reinforced with spiny rattan whips of Calamus sp. Tied with a climbing fern (inner stalk) of Lygodium sp, with a shaft of tiktik (miscanthus sp) hardened in fire. Binding fixed with glue from breadfruit tree sap (Artocarp, us sp) Part of a collection from Stefanie Klappe as part of an MSc in Ethnobotany. Arrow tip Caryota rumphiana. | ||||
| Determinations: | 153.05 MORACEAE Artocarpus sp 187.00 PALMAE Caryota sp 187.00 PALMAE Caryota rumphiana Mart. 187.00 PALMAE Calamus sp 187.00 PALMAE Calamus aruensis Becc. 200.00 POACEAE Miscanthus 307.00 SCHIZAEACEAE Lygodium sp | ||||