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A cylindrical wood container with a woven lid and braided bark wrapped around with some pink rope (see also parts b-r - darts).
Dart holder made of overlapping pieces of stem wrapped into a tube with one pointed and one open end; tube is held together by two bands of knotted cord. Attached to the band that is closer to the open end is a small pouch of knotted cord that has a small opening at one end; inside of pouch is flax-like plant material; pouch has a band of maroon but is otherwise natural in colour. Tightly held inside the holder is a wooden stick around which are darts held together by looped cord.
The long cylindrical wood case (part a) is partially wrapped around with sinew and it has a skin handle-holder. There is a skin lid cover (part b). Inside are three long wooden arrows with metal arrow points. The stems are wrapped with sinew at both ends.
The quiver (part a) is a red-brown skin case with a light brown skin handle stitched with fibre and beaded at the top rim with white beads. The bow (part b) is a dark brown curved wood stick with fibre string linking the two ends. The darts (parts c-f) are made of light brown wood sticks which have long pointed tips and sinew(?) wrapped around at their ends.
Animal hide rolled and stitched with green thread with small flap of hide folded over at top. Quiver does not completely encase the ten ceremonial arrows it contains. Arrows have notched bamboo ends painted with red and blue bands or dots and the bamboo ends are fitted over blunt narrow wooden shafts and affixed with thread and glue. Some arrows have feathers bound to bamboo with thread.
Quiver made from four pieces of sealskin stitched together with sinew there is a large opening at the top which is cut on a slant. The bottom has been permanently creased. There are eleven holes along one side, and through two of these are sinew cords which attach to a curved bone handle. Three smaller pieces of bone are attached for decoration.
Quiver made from seven pieces of sealskin stitched together with sinew. The bottom is slightly rounded and the top folds over all the way around. The bottom is slightly rounded and the top folds over all the way around. Along the lengthwise seam there are four holes. Near the top, there is a leather thong which forms a handle. There are two pieces of antler strung on it.
Tube (part a) from a natural node of bamboo, one end of which is closed while there is a small hole drilled on the side near the open end. At hole, split has formed. Parts b-h are arrows formed from solid bamboo lengths with the ends carved to points. Other end of each is split partially down the length and inserted into it, there is a folded diamond-shaped bamboo fibre piece held in place by fibre binding around the circumference at the top.
Mottled brown bark (part a), hollowed out and capped with dark brown hide, glued onto bottom end as a closure, and encircling open top. Stopper with hide acts as a lid (part b). Sinew of various shades of brown are bound in places around the length of the quiver securing to it a rawhide thong near both ends.
Hollow reed (part b) with five holes bored through one end and three smaller holes bored at the other end. Wide plug (part a) fits in the hollow end while the other end is permanently sealed. Two arrows (parts c and d). While both arrows have a metal point tip and base with fibre ? or sinew ? wrapped around both ends and their shafts are notched at the end, one arrow (part d) has a smaller base with less material wrapped below it than the other arrow (part c). One arrow (part d) has some yellow plant leaf-like fibre attached at the base of the point.