Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 20 Feb 2024
An Amazon palmwood bow
An Amazon palmwood bow
Guaica, Venezuela
205cm long and three bamboo arrows, with bound barbed tips and a pointed bamboo tip, with feather flights, the longest, 208.5cm and a bamboo and woven fibre quiver, 56cm long. (5)
Provenance
Collected in 1968 by Harry Farrar whilst on a hovercraft expedition along the Amazon.
The van Raalte Collection, UK.