Arrow
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
1899
Materials
steel & bamboo
Measurements
600 mm (H); 7 mm (Dia)
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 107264.3
Summary
One of eight arrows with bamboo shaft and triple-sided arrowhead made from metal with barbed shoulders and obtuse-shaped distal. It is used by the Mishmi tribe, who reside along the border of Eastern Bengal and Assam. 'An Assamese Frontier leather-covered wood quiver containing thirteen 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.