quiver (general & multipurpose)

Cylindrical darkened or varnished wooden quiver containing 5 arrows. Each arrow has a wooden shaft with a notched end bound with vegetable fibre and an iron arrowhead with triangular shaped tip and integral side barbs. Heads are all attached with vegetable fibre binding sealed with possibly poisonous resin which extends onto the shaft of the head. One of the arrows is longer than the others and has only remains of binding at notched end.

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