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