Arrow. [BS [OPS move] 2/10/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Arrow. [BS [OPS move] 2/10/2017]
Long description: Arrow. Cane shaft with one end nocked into two rounded prongs and bound with ?sinew. The metal head has a long square sectioned tang inserted into the cane and with a rounded head and a pair of downward facing prongs. See [1922.56.19 .1] for the quiver, [1922.56.19 .2 - .32] for the arrows and [1922.56.19 .33] for quiver lid. [BS [OPS move] 2/10/2017]
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria
Person: Field collector Charles George Frederick Knowles; PRM source Francis Howe Seymour Knowles
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1864
Date collected: 1864
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1922
Materials and processes: Material Cane Plant, Material Metal, Material Sinew, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Bound
Dimensions: Depth: max 7 mm, Width: max 19 mm, Length: max 598 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1922.56.19.24
Research and responses: The only events in Nigeria that I can find via a cursory examination of the Encyclopaedia Britannica on line is 'Dahomean attacks upon Abeokuta in 1851 and 1864 were decisively defeated.' to which this entry might refer [AP 5/7/2000]

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