Arrow with iron head inserted into bamboo shaft with join bound with highly polished vegetable fibre. Vegetable fibre binding at join has plaited ring at top. Shaft decorated with elaborate burnished or painted black linear patterns.Iron head has triangular shaped tip with 5 pairs of barbs alternately offset just below it. 2 white and brown feather flights at bottom of shaft, one of which has become detatched. Shaft has notch and binding at bottom end.
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