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1934.81.32

Bamboo arrow, made from a shaved length of bamboo. The butt of the arrow is square. The arrow is unfletched and has a long single barbed point. [SB [OPS move] 29/9/2017]

1934.81.32

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Collection type
Object
Description
Bamboo arrow, made from a shaved length of bamboo. The butt of the arrow is square. The arrow is unfletched and has a long single barbed point. [SB [OPS move] 29/9/2017]
Long description
Bamboo arrow, made from a shaved length of bamboo. The butt of the arrow is square. The arrow is unfletched and has a long single barbed point. For the associated bow and arrows see [19341.81.31 - .39] [SB [OPS move] 29/9/2017]
Geographical reference
Myanmar (Burma)
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Myanmar (Burma)
Chin State Southern Chin Hills (An Hill Tracts) Maisekan or Padonwa village
Cultural groups
An (Anu)
Thado
Person
Field collector W. Biber
PRM source James Henry Green
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1934
Date collected
By 1931
Acquisition information
Donated: 1934
Materials and processes
Material Bamboo Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Depth: max 4 mm, Width: max 7 mm, Length: max 534 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1934.81.32
Research and responses

Other objects sent to Green by ?Biber include 1934.81.9, 1934.81.12, 1934.81.40-51 & 1934.81.82. [SHD 5/2/2001]

?Biber was District Superintendent of Police at Kyaukpyu. He sent the objects to Green on 23 March 1931. [5/2/2001]

At first it seemed to SHD that this collection may have some to Oxford as early as the end of 1930, and thus have been collected in Burma before that time. One suspected this because of it originally having been listed with the G D Walker collection (see comment at the beginning of the accession book entry, above). The Walker collection (1931.87) was accessioned in 1931 but sent from Assam, India by Walker before 11 November 1930 (see his letter to this effect in Related Documents File). Included in this Green collection (1934.81) however, are items indicated by a related document to have been collected in 1931 by Green from W. ?Biber (1934.81.9, 12, 31-51 & 82). In practice, the Green collection may simply have been entered in the same notebook as the Walker collection because there remained pages to be filled in that book - i.e. there may or may not be a substantive connection between the two collections. [SHD 30/1/2001]

The objects referred to by the single entry in accession book IX were given the retrospective number 1934.55 in that accession book. Those objects are entered individually in the Green collection catalogue. In this volume, the collection had been given the retrospective accession number 1934.81, and this is the number used. [CW 6/4/2000]

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