Arrow with bamboo shaft with a notched end bound with vegetable fibre or sinew binding. Bone foreshaft with additional wooden foreshaft attached with vegetable fibre or hide binding. Bone head with triangular tip with two integral side barbs and an integral shaft covered with a poisonous? resinous substance.
poison arrow (weapons: missiles & projectors)
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