1934.81.33

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 9 mm, Length: max 537 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1934.81.33

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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