Arrowhead
Here are two from a group of 28 examples that were probably made from locally smelted iron. Within a quiver of arrows one would find a large variety of arrowhead shapes. These heads would have been slotted into and bound to non-feathered but deeply notched reeds.
Collected 1912-4
Collected 1912-4
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 59/1953/1
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Collection Area Region
- W
- Material
- iron
- Common Name
- arrowhead
- Simple Name
- arrowhead
- Production County
- Northern?
- Production Country
- Nigeria
- Production Year Low
- 1912
- Production Year High
- 1914
