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29th September 2018, 01:55 PM
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Amazon arrows
Something a little different ... here are images of three arrows I have that are probably from the Amazon basin of South America. Can anyone help with more accurate identification ?
I would guess the very long one is for fishing from a canoe and the other two for hunting birds and larger mammals respectively ?? The shafts are made of cane or reed. Comments are welcome; anyone else on the forum interested in tribal/ethnographic archery ? |
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4th October 2018, 05:00 PM
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These arrows appear to be from the Xingu region. They are quite distinctive in the short length and the bindings at the fletched ends. The examples I post pictures of are listed as coming from the Paracana, Arawete, and Asurini. Source Museum fur Volkerkunde Dresden.
all you need to now is here, https://pib.socioambiental.org/en/Povo:Asurini_do_Xingu Last edited by Tim Simmons; 4th October 2018 at 05:24 PM. |
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13th October 2018, 06:08 PM
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Thanks to Tim for his comments. Here are a couple more references on South American arrows I found in the books "Man and his Handiwork" 1886 and "Indianer und Weisse" 1923.
If anyone has more input, comments etc to make on the subject, please do so. |
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