quiver and blow gun darts
- Title:
- quiver and blow gun darts
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hodge, Trumansburg, N.Y.
- Date:
- 20th century
- Site:
- Tingo María, Huánuco, Peru
- Location:
- Tingo María, Huánuco, Peru
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- Anthr1982_003_0019a_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 982.3.19
- File Name:
- Anthr1982_003_0019a_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Peruvian
- Style/Period:
- Pre-Columbian South American styles and periods
- Work Type:
- darts
quivers - Materials/Techniques:
- palm or bamboo
resin
cotton thread
straw (plant material)
gourd - Subject:
- indigenous people
south america
indians of south america
peru
social life and customs - Description:
- quiver: Length-26 cm Diameter-5 cm gourd: Length-7.5 cm Diameter-6.5 cm strap: Length-81 cm darts: Length-25 to 33 cm The quiver is made of an unidentified palm or bamboo tube. The bottom is coated with a black resin while the top is left open for inserting the darts. It has cotton thread binding which is greenish in color around both the top and the bottom. There is also a fiber binding around the center of the tube. The binding at the top serves to attach a braided straw strap. The center and bottom bindings hold a strip of palm/bamboo in position that is attached to a small gourd. The gourd (Crescentia crujete from the calabash tree) has a hole in one end and has been hollowed out to hold kapok (Ceiba pentandra), a kind of cotton from the silk cotton tree that is tied at the ends of blow gun darts. The exterior of the gourd is decorated with punctated patterns. The quiver contains palm leaf fragments and nine blow gun darts in various stages of manufacture. Four of the darts are dark brown/black in color and are made from peach palm (Bactris gasipaes). Kapok is attached at one end of all four darts with a very fine thread. Three of the peach palm darts have curare on their tips (the fourth dart is missing its tip), and the line of the poison can be clearly seen. The five remaining darts are a light straw color and only four of them have kapok attached. The kapok is simply stuck on to the darts, however, without any thread binding. It does not appear that the tips of these five darts were poisoned either.
- Archival Collection:
- Precolumbian Peruvian textiles and ceramics
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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