Arrow with bamboo shaft with notched end bound with darkend vegetable fibre. Iron arrowhead with spiralled "twisted" lower section with 3 side barbs and pointed tip, attached to shaft with darkened vegetable fibre.
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kukri (knife (weapons: edged)); knife sheath (sheath (weapons: accessories))
object | nn18688
Anthropology
warri component; counter
object | 6.12.65/539.31
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canoe bailer; dugout with single outrigger (dugout canoe model)
object | 3.2.51/1.3
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pipe bowl (pipe (narcotics & intoxicants: smoking))
object | 8.5.63/14
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