Object

Accession No

2005.629

Description

Fishing arrow made of pÃ¯leu (wild cane, gynerium sagittatum) and bound with red and brown commercial cotton thread and wulawaito (silk grass, bromelia sp.) with double barbed steel tip.

Place

Americas; South America; French Guiana; Litani river; Antecume Pata; Wayana; Apalai

Period

Source

Grotti, Vanessa [collector and donor]: Brightman, Marc [collector and donor]

Department

Anth

Reference Numbers

2005.629

Cultural Affliation

Wayana

Material

Cane; Cotton; Grass; Steel

Local Term

Measurements

1815mm

Events

Context (Related Documents)
See Crowther-Beynon Report by Vanessa Grotti and Marc Brightman, 2005 in MAA's archives
Event Date 2005
Author: Lucie Carreau (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Part of a group of objects, (2005.629-49), bought, bartered or received as a gift through the intermediary of the collectors' extended family.
Event Date 2005
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Fishing arrow made of pÃ¯leu (wild cane, gynerium sagittatum) and bound with red and brown commercial cotton thread and wulawaito (silk grass, bromelia sp.) with double barbed steel tip.
Event Date 03/2005
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: on display in Amazonia case,(case 17-18), Maudslay Hall from March 2007.
Event Date 3/2007
Author: Lucie Carreau (admin)

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