Group of eight arrows with leaf-shaped iron heads, darkened wooden shafts with red tape binding to the upper shaft. Lower shafts of six have a 3-feathered fletching, two have no fletching. All have a notched end covered with reptile skin.
These items were examined by Mr. A. G. Van Beek in 1972. His notes read: arrows / Manchu - China Nothing really substantial could be found regarding these arrows. Two sources were the Cambridge and Oxford collections on Ethnography where these weapons were referred to as Manchu arrows. Böttger gives an ill-drawn arrowhead of the same type, presumably meant as a hunting weapon. Although not seeming to be so heavy on first sight, the arrows need a large and powerful bow. Shot with a Chinese bow (in museum condition and besides that not so powerful) at a range of about 25 yards (!), the arrows needed the full pull to reach the target with sufficient velocity and power to pierce it. Only the small arrows of the same type [which correspond to Van Beek's numbers of G (vB) 130, 131, 132; however, no Horniman numbers were given] were reasonably accurate, to hit the target on that distance frequently. Böttger, Walter - Die Ursprünglichen Jagdmethoden der Chinesen, Berlin 1960 [Abb. 2h/p. 24]
