Description (Physical description)
Cane shaft with carved wooden point, bound to shaft with cane strips. Shaft decorated with alternating unpainted and black painted bands. Five painted bands just below wooden tip and four further painted lines at base of shaft. Point carved to form repeated triangle shapes. Water marks on lower section of shaft.
Event Date 3/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

Description (Labels & Markings)
Collector inscription on arrow shaft reads: [Handwritten in pencil:] 'KATAU'.

Museum label adhered to arrow shaft reads: [Handwritten in black ink by Gerald Montagu Benton:] 'E.1905.251 C New Guinea (Locality not given) Major W. Cooke Daniels /05'.
Event Date 3/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

Context (Other owners)
Following the expedition, Charles Seligman catalogued and donated the collections on the understanding they were a gift from William Cooke Daniels, the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition's primary funder.
Event Date 3/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

Context (Other)
Catalogue card reads: [Handwritten in pencil:] 'E.1905.251, (1-10) MELANESIA. NEW GUINEA. Arrows, (10) Donor [underlined. Major W. Cooke Daniels. R.1906 ['5' crossed out in black ball point and replaced with '6']. 881, (1-10).'; [later addition handwritten in black ball point:] 'B.N.G. with carved and plain heads Collected by Cooke-Daniels' Ethnographical Expedition 1903'.
Event Date 3/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

Context (Field collection)
Collected during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea, led by Major William Cooke Daniels and Dr. Charles Seligman, accompanied by Dr. Walter Mersh Strong and Mr A.H. Dunning, 1903-1904.

Museum accession register notes 'Ten arrows with carved and plain heads.'; 'Locality not given. B.N.G.' (Accessions 7:35). However, this arrow and E 1905.251 E (of the same style) have 'KATAU' written in pencil on one side, suggesting the arrows were collected on the Katau, now Binaturi, River.
Event Date 3/4/2017
Author: Heather Donoghue