Arrow with bamboo shaft decorated with bands of burnished linear decoration. Darkend, wooden foreshaft with tapering, attached? head. Head covered with red pigment with 6 sets of 4 barbs (some detatched and missing). Wooden barbs bound to head with vegetable fibre sealed with resin which is decorated with white pigment. Pointed tip covered with vegetable fibre binding. Head and shaft attached with vegetable fibre sealed with resin.
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