Quiver lid
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
1899
Materials
wood & leather
Measurements
165 mm (H); 65 mm (Dia)
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 107266.2
Summary
Lid to quiver case, it is hollow and has leather cord weaved around the lid for decoration. Used by the Mishmi tribe, who reside along the border of Eastern Bengal and Assam. 'An Assamese Frontier leather quiver containing ten 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.