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An arrow shaft, 88 cm. long, made of a variety of pitpit (sword grass). Light brown near the fore-shaft is darkening to black at the butt due to a black coating. The fore-shaft of black palm wood, 18 cm. long, is inserted into the shaft and bound with a woven sleeve of rattan 1.5 cm. wide. The fore-shaft is incised with dots and zigzag lines. The long point is made of solid bone, protruding 6.5 cm. beyond the fore-shaft and bound to it with a band of bark cord 10 cm. wide and a sleeve of woven rattan 1.5 cm. wide coated with red and yellow ? ochre.

Culture: Kewa
Material: rattan, bone, grass, black palm wood, resin, ochre pigment and bark
Made in: Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution: MOA: University of British Columbia

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Brown wood stick of a very elongated, thin paddle shape that is a flattened oval in cross-section. One end is pointed while the flatter end is rounded.

Culture: Kewa
Material: casuarina wood ?
Made in: Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution: MOA: University of British Columbia

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A very long plain dark bow without string. The bow has a flattened oval appearance with one flat side in cross section (one side flat, one side convex.), tapering from the centre to the ends. There is a raised ridge around the bow at both ends. One end has a cassowary claw, which is now broken. The opposite has two woven sleeves, probably rattan, each 1 cm. wide. The flat side of the bow is coated with thick resinous substance, now flaking off.

Culture: Kewa
Material: black palm wood, rattan ? and pandanus leaf ?
Made in: Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution: MOA: University of British Columbia

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