FMNH 104818.31

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | 22-28 | Country Togo, West Africa. | Locality | People Moba Stock | Name Skin quiver with 67 arrows. Quiver 47 cm long, about 8 cm. in diameter, with sort of embroidering in leather string around top. Arrows unfeathered, with barbed iron heads. Not notched, but with projection on one side, the whole end for about 3-4 cm. being wrapped | Collection Otto Finsch. Cap. Thierry, Col. | Notes with fine rattan (?) splint. Many wrapped in addition with strip of snake or lizard skin. With the quiver came numbers 104819-104825; which were tied to handle. | Price [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 104818 1-68 | 471/1 | Acc. 941
Catalog Number: 104818.31
Description: arrow
Materials: metal; iron, wood, rattan, animal skin; reptile; lizard or snake
Cultural Attribution: Moba
Accession Number: [941] O. Finsch (Purchase)
Accession Year: 1905
Other Numbers: 471/1
Collector/Source: Otto Finsch, Captain Gaston Thierry
EMu IRN: 1349600
GUID: c35cff5a-f86c-48ce-8485-142822eaea4a

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