Context (Field collection)
Collected by Professor Anthony Bevan.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card annotated in pencil, under current idno, notes, '1910. ?86, 87, 88. - number on object.' with 86 being crossed out.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for E 1911.112.32-33, handwritten in ball point pen, reads, 'Six arrows (two feathered) armed with heavy conical heads (five of wood and one of bone).'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
These artefacts bear the numbers entered in the Blue Book.
Event Date 1/3/1994
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
One copy of typed letter from John Seago, member of the Society of Archer Antiquaries Feb. 1999, to Anita Herle (then curator of America and Oceania), reads, '[...] these were contained in a quiver, which I believe was made as part of a 'Rimankyu' set , such a set would have originally contained a set of much smaller arrows, (shorter), together with a short bow, [...] made of baleen, (whalebone). Such sets were designed to be carried in a palanquin, in much the same way travellers used to carry cased sets of traveling pistols in carriages in Europe)

Letter copy stored with catalogue cards.
Event Date 1999
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Description (Physical description)
One arrow. Foreshaft of bone and wooden shaft, bound with three fibre strings. Arrowhead not present. Partial fletching remains.
Event Date 6/3/2025
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu