Conical leather quiver, decorated around the top in ostrich egg-shell and traded blue beads, containing a model bow with gut string and numerous arrows, some articulated with reed sections bound in gut, in emulation of full sized arrows. The bow and arrow shafts are made of hard dark wood (or horn ?). Arrows do not have metal points, but bow is capable of firing them some 40 feet.
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