Accession No
2019.37.3
Description
Barbed bamboo arrow partly covered with finely plaited orchid vine, Dendrobium antennatum
Place
Oceania; Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Autonomous Region of Bougainville; Bougainville Island; Arawa: Oceania; Solomon Islands
Period
late 20th Century
Source
Spriggs, Matthew (Professor) [collector and donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
2019.37.3; MAA: MN0088
Cultural Affliation
Material
Cane; Wood; Plant fibre
Local Term
Measurements
1390mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Barbed bamboo arrow partly covered with finely plaited orchid vine, Dendrobium antennatum
Event Date 1/5/2019
Author: rachel hand
Context (Field collection)
Solomon Islands arrows bought in Artefacts shop in Arawa, Bougainville Island in 1984. At the time Spriggs was based at the University of Hawaii but working on fieldwork in the Solomons and had travelled to Bougainville to get married. He passed the bow and arrows to his parents to take home and recently re-acquired them before offering them to MAA when visiting as Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2016.
Remains of old airline labels previously attached to items in object history file.
Event Date 23/8/2019
Author: rachel hand
Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2020.4844 | Remedial
Event Date 20/10/2020
Author: rachel hand
Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2020.4844 | Remedial
Event Date 22/10/2020
Author: Lauren Burleson
FM:288138
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