Arrow
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
1899
Materials
steel & bamboo
Measurements
7 mm (Dia); 520 mm (H)
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 107264.9
Summary
One of eight arrows with bamboo shaft and missing arrowhead. 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
Purchased in 1986 by the National Heritage Memorial Fund from Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000). Gifted to the National Trust in 1987 by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.