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1906.20.75.2

Gourd containing silk-cotton for blow-pipe darts. Attached to quiver 1906.20.75 .1. [El.B 11/01/2008]

1906.20.75.2

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Collection type: Object
Description: Gourd containing silk-cotton for blow-pipe darts. Attached to quiver 1906.20.75 .1. [El.B 11/01/2008]
Geographical reference: Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru; Huacapa River
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Sarah Constance Silver; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1906
Date collected: By 1906
Acquisition information: Donated: 03/1906
Materials and processes: Material Gourd Plant, Material Plant Fibre
Dimensions: Diameter: max 120 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1906.20.75.2
Research and responses: Silk-cotton is a fibre similar to kapok and cotton. It comes the seed-husk of the bombax tree. [El.B 11/01/2008]

Search terms: Vessel, Hunting, Hunting accessory