Arrow
Goodenough Bay
Papua New Guinea
collected 1944
Bamboo and wood
Overall: 65 3/4 × 1 1/4 in. (167 × 3.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Richard E. Stoiber, Class of 1932; Collected by Frank Gilbert, Class of 1932
999.16.30476
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Armament
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Frank Gilbert, Class of 1932, while on Navy duty in 1944 (World War II). Mr. Gilbert traded t-shirts and cigarettes in exchange for the arrows; given to Professor Richard Edwin Stoiber, Norwich, Vermont by Frank Gilbert's wife, Dorothy, in 1994; given to present collection, 1999.
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