- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Blowpipe dart of bamboo with pith butt and poisoned tip. [El.B 17/5/2007]
- Person
- Field collector Charles Edward Monro
- Field collector HMS Penguin
- PRM source Charles Edward Monro
- Date / Period
- Date made: Circa by 1894
- Date collected
- circa 1894
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 01/10/1927
- Materials and processes
- Material Bamboo Plant, Material Plant Pith, Material Poison, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 200 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1927.40.1.4
Search terms: Weapon, Blowpipe Dart
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