Skip to content
Pitt Rivers Museum
AboutHire the MuseumNewsletterUniversity of Oxford

1954.2.48.1-?

Quiver with attached cotton basket & poisoned blowpipe darts

1954.2.48.1-?

Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Terms and Conditions

If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.

Collection type
Object
Description
Quiver with attached cotton basket & poisoned blowpipe darts
Cultural groups
Akawaio
Yekuana
Person
Field collector Audrey Butt Colson
PRM source Audrey Butt Colson
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1952
Date collected
1951 - 1952
Acquisition information
Donated: 1954
Materials and processes
Material Deer Skin Animal, Material Gourd Plant, Material Resin Plant, Material Plant, Material Poison, Process Basketry
Dimensions
Length 425 mm, Diameter: max 80 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1954.2.48.1-?

Search terms: Weapon, Basketry, Hunting, Trade, Quiver, Basket, Hunting accessory, Blowpipe Dart, Poison