Context (Acquisition Details)
Lieut. G. St John. Orde Brown (R.A.) Assistant Commissoner Embu District, collector and donor.
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for Z 1444: 'A bamboo quiver (rare) and nine arrows, two without heads and one firestick. Arrows are poisoned and some are protected with skin wrappings. Some have metal and others wooden foreshafts.'
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Ten arrows. Three arrows without heads, four arrows with skin wrapping around their heads, three arrows with metal foreshafts and triangular shaped arrow heads.
Event Date 5/4/2022
Author: Annie Tomkins

Context (Amendments / updates)
A number of objects from the Granville St John Orde Browne collection were accessioned under the number E 1912.7 with suffixes later added to this number. A bamboo quiver, nine arrows and a firestick were assigned the accession number E 1912.7.22 in the accession register.
These objects were later assigned a unique temporary Z number (Z 1444). It was decided that the original accession number E 1912.7.22 would be used to identify the objects. The quiver, firestick and arrows have been given letter suffixes to account for the 12 separate components: E 1912.7.22 A-L.
Found inside the quiver (E 1912.7.22 A) was a firestick (E 1912.7.22 B) and ten arrows (E 1912.7.22 C-L). This is one more arrow than stated on the catalogue card. The catalogue describes the arrows as such: 'nine arrows, two without heads...Arrows are poisoned and some are protected with skin wrappings. Some have metal and others wooden foreshafts.'
Found inside the quiver were: three arrows without heads, four arrows with skin wrapping around their heads, three arrows with metal foreshafts and triangular shaped arrow heads.
The catalogue card lists only 'two without heads', therefore it is possible that one of the three arrows found without a head may not belong to this quiver. However as we cannot distinguish which the original two are, all three have been kept under the accession number E 1912.7.22 C-L. Further analysis is needed.
Event Date 5/4/2022
Author: Annie Tomkins