FMNH 8153.1{3}

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | 16-27 | Country Br. Guiana | People | Locality | Name Quivers for blow pipe arrows (over) | Collection Quelch. Com. W.C.E. | Where Placed | Notes [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | No. ["8158" crossed out] 1-3 8153 | Ac 14 [BACK] exh. 1918 | Until required for use, darts for the blowgun are carried in quivers. These are made of twilled splints forming a sort of a basket and are covered with a layer of pitch. The top is closed with a cover made of the tough hide of the tapir. The darts are carried within rolled up in a cylindrical bundle with the poisoned points upward, but protected by a wooden stick by which they are lifted out. With them is always carried a smaller basket filled with the fiber of the silk-cotton tree or with cotton which is wrapped around the base of the dark to give it "feathering" The jaw of a perai fish is usually carried also with which to ring the darts. | Cat # 8153
Catalog Number: 8153.1{3}
Description: quiver
Materials: vegetal material, pitch, animal hide; tapir, vegetal fiber, gourd, wood, poison, cotton, tree cotton
Accession Number: [14] World's Columbian Exposition - British Guiana Commission (Purchase)
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Collector/Source: World's Columbian Exposition - British Guiana Commission - British Guiana Commission, J. J. Quelch
EMu IRN: 1441942
GUID: 8c852271-9ff9-4d8c-9f79-94cdb8c849dd

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