FMNH 276382.3

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    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. 276382 / 1-20 | ENT | Accession No. 2616 | Field Catalogue No. FC-4624 / 1-20 | Negative No. | PRL | Sub. Ind. No. 42-24 | General Provenience: Melanesia New Guinea: Papua | Where collected: | Where made: | Attribution: Torres Straits | Tribe: | People: | Culture: | Brief description: 20 arrows | Detailed description: Bundle of 20 arrows; cane shafts; most of which are blackened; some barbed and some not; some bone tips; some palm wood, some bamboo; string and woven fiber bindings; some points incised and incised areas filled with white pigment. Some light-colored shafts decorated with incised carved designs. | See reverse x | Dimensions (in cm.): | length: 148.0* | width: | height: | circumfrence: | diameter: | *average | Fuller Collection: Purchased from Captain A.W.F. Fuller of London, England, in 1958 | Acquired by Fuller on January 25, 1910. [BACK] Old label: "These arrows were given to the seller by Capt. Harvey of the Queensland-Goole Steamer, "Merrie England". They were used in the attack on the steamer at New Guinea about 1899, when several of the natives were killed." | 276382
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    Creator: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: excerpt of conversations on Sonoband 136 between Roland Force and Captain A.W.F. Fuller, 1958
Catalog Number: 276382.3
Description: arrow
Materials: cane, bone, palm wood, bamboo, string, fiber, pigment
Cultural Attribution: Torres Strait Islander, Melanesian
Accession Number: [2616] A. W. F. Fuller (Purchase)
Accession Year: 1958
Other Numbers: FC 4624/1-20
District/County: Torres Strait
Collector/Source: Captain Alfred W. F. Fuller, Captain Alfred W. F. Fuller
EMu IRN: 1398667
GUID: 87ef1c2d-a263-49db-8da1-29d807f9620d

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