blow-pipe (weapons: missiles & projectors); blow-pipe dart

Blow-pipe and feathered dart. The dart is missing. The blow-pipe is made from a length of bamboo, with two bands of vegetable fibre finding, at one end and in the middle. Some of the length of the blow-pipe appears to be missing, as it was originally 16 feet long.

fighting

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