- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bamboo arrow with socketed barbed iron head. For associated quiver and other arrows see [1942.8.83 .1 - .12] [EH [OPS move] 14/9/2017]
- Long description
- Arrow with bamboo shaft and pointed barbed iron head. Notched nock, with thin fletching of black feathers. Shaft bound between the fletching with string. Black ?poison resin on the base of the head and top of the shaft.[EH [OPS move] 14/9/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Thado
- Person
- Field collector John Henry Hutton
- Field collector James Philip Mills
- Field collector Henry Balfour
- PRM source John Henry Hutton
- PRM source James Philip Mills
- PRM source Henry Balfour
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1939?, uncertain
- Date collected
- ?By 1939
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 08/1942, uncertain Found unentered: 1942
- Materials and processes
- Material Bamboo Plant, Material Bird Feather, Material Iron Metal, Material String, Material Resin Plant, Material Poison, Process Fletched, Process Socketed, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 21 mm, Length: max 585 mm, Width: max 34 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1942.8.83.12 Other PRM accession number: 1942.8.83l
- Research and responses
Monkshood, also called Wolfsbane, or Aconite (genus Aconitum), any of 100 or more species of poisonous, perennial herbs of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). All species contain the powerful poison aconitine. Source: Encylopaedia Britannica
Search terms: Archery Weapon, Arrow, Poison