Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Cross bow- wooden- Fang (Pahouin).'

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Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Circular metal-rimmed tag: 'Cross-bow / Fang / W.Africa'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Circular, metal-rimmed tag with green label adhered, attached with string: 'Arbalet / des Fãns ou / Pahouins / [...] fleche empoisonnées'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Display)
History of display indicated by copper brackets, now removed.
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card stamped: 'Clarke gift'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Duplicate card reads: 'Cross bow, wooden. Fang'.
[Card not seen as part of Stores Move Project 2022]
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (References)
Catalogue card: 'Mr Henry Balfour has written on these bows'

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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Crossbow with wooden stock (.1) and bow (.2). Long wooden stock with a square hole into which the bow can be slotted; pierced lug and carved designs at bow end of stock; stock split in half along the length and held together with a metal pin at one end and wound strip of metal at the other; curved wooden bow with square cross-section tapering towards either end and notched.
Event Date 19/1/2022
Author: Katrina Dring