FMNH 273001.F

  • 273001 quiver, quiver stopper and arrows
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    Description: Quiver and arrows
  • Hall F Case 9; General Case (Society Islands)
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    Description: General Case (Society Islands). Screen of Case 9 in Hall F. Installed October 1960.
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    Scanner: Allison Coates : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    Transcriber: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Chicago Natural History Museum - Ethnology | Catalogue No. 273001 / A-Q | ENT | Accession No. 2616 | Field Catalogue No. FC-2203/A-Q | Negative No. 97175 | Sub. Ind. No. 51-21 | General Provenience: Polynesia (Society Islands) Tahiti | Where Collected: | Where Made: | Attribution: | Tribe: | People: | Culture: Tahitian | Brief description: Quiver with arrows and stopper | Detailed description: Bamboo quiver (sennit wrapping present), coconut stopper, and 15 arrows (D and C from the Chichester Museum and E through Q from the London Missionary Society's Collection). The combination of these materials is very rare and although this combination is one put together by Fuller, it is nonetheless valuable. | See reverse | Dimensions (in cm): | Length: 99.8 | Width: | Height: | Circumference: | Diameter: | Fuller Collection: Purchased from Captain A.W.F. Fuller of London, England, in 1958 [BACK] The quiver was originally in the United Service Museum (see sticker on side reading "C. Fund 4 Nov. 1896 U.S.M.") [C stands for Christy Fund]. Sticker refers to British Museum fund evidently used to purchase a number of items from the U.S.M. in 1896. Subsequently, the quiver was declared a duplicate specimen by the British Museum and was acquired by Edge-Partington who ascribed the date 1792 to it (see his label stuck on the specimen.) To Fuller on Mar. 7, '13. The stopper came from the London Missionary Society's Collection (as did 13 of the arrows) [purchased May 31, 1910 by Fuller]. Arrows of slender reeds or small diameter bamboo with nocks (some bound in fiber wrappings with black mastic at proximal ends. Points appear to be of wood with fiber wrappings and black gum or other coloring of black. Sub K has a small lizard on the shaft which is formed of punctate marks. | 273001
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    Creator: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: excerpt of conversations on Sonoband 74 between Roland Force and Captain A.W.F. Fuller, 1958
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    Creator: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: excerpt of conversations on Sonoband 72 between Roland Force and Captain A.W.F. Fuller, 1958
Catalog Number: 273001.F
Description: arrow
Materials: wood, gum, reed, fiber, mastic
Cultural Attribution: Tahitian
Accession Number: [2616] A. W. F. Fuller (Purchase)
Accession Year: 1958
Other Numbers: FC 2203, 97175, A98008
Collector/Source: Captain Alfred W. F. Fuller, Captain Alfred W. F. Fuller
EMu IRN: 1397572
GUID: 635c1a59-d745-46b7-bb35-a968c04f8069

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