Quiver of bamboo with a node forming the base, and a cap of moulded skin, decorated in simple excised zigzag pattern and red, yellow and blue feathers on a krawa string binding. Many stranded cotton string loop handle. Containing 41 bamboo arrowheads, most of them shouldered and scored and covered in Curare poison at the tip. The heads are inserted into the arrow foreshafts just before use.
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