NHM-HT.135-2014
Parts
Object number
NHM-HT.135-2014
Object type
Identification
Description
Yanomami bow and arrows
Comments
Display label:
'Yanomami Bows and arrows. The Yanomami make arrows up to seven feet long from bamboo and cane. Preparing them takes up more of a man’s time than any other activity. Matching sections of plumes from parrots, macaws and black curassow are set on opposite sides of the shaft and bound into place with lengths of cotton. Barbs are made of monkey bone for birds and sharpened palm wood for monkeys, bound with fibre and held fast with resin.'
'Yanomami Bows and arrows. The Yanomami make arrows up to seven feet long from bamboo and cane. Preparing them takes up more of a man’s time than any other activity. Matching sections of plumes from parrots, macaws and black curassow are set on opposite sides of the shaft and bound into place with lengths of cotton. Barbs are made of monkey bone for birds and sharpened palm wood for monkeys, bound with fibre and held fast with resin.'
Description
Material
wood
Production
People
Place
Brazil
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Hanbury-Tenison, R., Beauty Freely Given: A Universal Truth. Artefacts from the Collection of Robin Hanbury-Tenison, Garage Press, 2012 (p. 27)
