Description (Physical description)
One of six arrows with single barbed leaf shaped iron heads and lashings of rattan, all being smeared with upas poison and winged with hornbill feathers. Most of the arrows are incised with magic designs
Event Date 1903
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Hornbill feathers are added for magic purposes and not for assisting the flight; Found: Semang; Collected by: Ridgeway.Professor
Event Date 5/3/1987
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Featured in Quaternary International, 'Poison, plants and Palaeolithic hunters. An analytical method to investigate the presence of plant poison on archaeological artefacts' by Valentina Borgia, Michelle G. Carlin, Jacopo Crezzini, 2005
Swab analysis by Borgia on one of the arrows confirmed the presence of compounds that may be indicative of the presence of Antiaris toxicaria.
Event Date 7/9/2016
Author: Rachel Hand

Loan (Exhibition)
Natural History Musuem, 10/11/2017 to 11/05/2018, venom
Event Date 10/11/2017
Author: Rachel Hand

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2017.3839 | Remedial
Event Date 3/5/2017
Author: Ruth Watson

Context (Amendments / updates)
Previously noted as 'From the Negrito Tribe'. This term [alt. Negrities, Negritoes] is obsolete and was used to refer to people with perceived shared racial characteristics across various groups.

The Malay term 'Orang Asli' is used more commonly to refer to the indigenous people of the Malay peninsular

The term 'Semang' can be used to refer more broadly to people to groups such as Batek, Jahai, Maniq, Cheq Wong, Kintaq, Kensiw, though anthropologists tend to refer to Semang groups as Northern Aslian speakers, while the Lanoh people are Central Aslian speakers, though they shared many cultural characteristics with other Semang groups before they were re-settled in the late twentieth century in Perak State.

From notes and discussions with Alice Rudge on her visit to MAA 22/10/2018.
Event Date 25/10/2018
Author: ashleigh griffin