Arrow
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
1899
Materials
wood, feather & iron
Measurements
590 mm (H); 5 mm (Dia)
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 107263.8
Summary
Arrow with feather fleching and point metal with straight sides, barbed shoulders and a sharp, acute-shaped distal. It is used by the Mishmi tribe, who reside along the border of Eastern Bengal and 'An Assamese Frontier leather-covered wood quiver containing eight arrows - Mishmi Tribes' (Christie's entry)
Full description
Health Hazard: Poison tipped arrows
Provenance
Curzon Collection acquired by gift as part of the transfer of Kedleston Hall to The National Trust in 1986.