Quiver Item Number: K4.245 a-aa from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Dark brown leather quiver (part a) and twenty-six arrows (parts b-aa). Twenty-two of the arrows (parts b-w) consist of iron arrowheads of various shapes and sizes bound to bamboo shafts with feather fletchings at the end. Parts x-aa also have bamboo shafts ending with feather fletchings, but narrow to a sharp point at the tip and do not have arrowheads.
Item History
- Made in Tanzania
- Owned by Basil G. Hamilton and Mary E. Crawford
- Owned by B.C. Provincial Museum before February 1954
- Received from B.C. Provincial Museum (Transferring institution) during February 1954
What
- Name
- Quiver
- Identification Number
- K4.245 a-aa
- Type of Item
- quiver
- Material
- feather, iron metal, bamboo grass and leather skin
- Manufacturing Technique
- cut, cured and sewn
- Part A
- height 89.0 cm, width 10.5 cm, depth 8.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- East African
- Previous Owner
- Basil G. Hamilton, Mary E. Crawford and B.C. Provincial Museum
- Received from
- B.C. Provincial Museum (Transferring institution)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Tanzania
When
- Ownership Date
- before February 1954
- Acquisition Date
- during February 1954
Other
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 1856/0018 a-aa