FMNH 8107.7

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | 16-23 | Country Venezuela | People | Locality | Name Guard for poisoned arrows, with seven poisoned arrows. (over) | Collection R. Welles Jr. | Where Placed Hall 16 | Notes Said to be the only arrows used in war. [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | No 8107 1-8 | 47 | Acc. 35 [BACK] exh 1918 | These arrows are beautiful specimens of native handicraft and are used solely in war. The shaft is of a straight hollow cane, unfeathered but with the butt wrapped with cord and covered. The foreshaft is of palm-wood, wrapped in several places with decorative bands of fiber. The foreshaft is ringed with several deep grooves so that the point will break off in the body, and is covered with curare poison. In the very point is affixed the naturally barbed end of the tail of a sting-ray. The points of the arrows are kep in a cover until needed. This guard is carefully made with a separate hole for each of the seven arrows. It is made principally of palm-leaf, wound artistically with cord and decorated with a tuft of feathers. | Cat #8107
Catalog Number: 8107.7
Description: arrow
Materials: cane, cord, wood, fiber, palm leaf, feather
Accession Number: [35] R. Welles Jr. (Gift)
Accession Year: 1893
Other Numbers: 47
Collector/Source: Roger Welles Jr., World's Columbian Exposition - Department of Ethnology - Department of Ethnology
EMu IRN: 1441835
GUID: fea2d406-2b64-4f7d-abb3-addcb040300d

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