Arrow, Burun?
Other views of this artifact:
Accession Number:
1944.10.77
Country:
Sudan
Region:
Blue Nile ?Darfung
Cultural Group:
?Burun
Date Made:
By 1912
Materials:
Cane Plant , Animal Hide Skin
Process:
Carved , Notched , Socketed , Bound
Dimensions:
L shaft = 604, diam = 8.3 x 7.6, nock L = 13, binding L = 14, W = 2 mm [RTS 27/5/2005].
Weight:
12.0 g
Other Owners:
L. Gorringe and Mrs L. Gorringe
Field Collector:
L. Gorringe
PRM Source:
Mrs L. Gorringe
Acquired:
Donated October 1944
Collected Date:
1902 - 1912
Description:
Arrow shaft cut from a length of yellowish brown cane (Pantone 730C) with parts of 5 segments preserved along its length.
The top of the shaft has been shaved slightly, and hollowed out to form a socket, into which the tanged base of the arrowhead would have originally fitted and then been bound round with hide strips, now missing, although a reserved band around the shaft shows where this had been seated.
This binding was designed to prevent the shaft splitting on impact.
The lower part of the shaft has been similar bound with a grayish brown hide (Pantone Warm Gray 10C) just above the nocked butt, which has 2 rectangular notches cut into opposite sides.
The shaft is complete in itself, but has split badly down its upper body, with further hairline cracks in the butt.
It has a weight of 12 grams, a length of 604 mm, diameter of 8.3 by 7.6 mm and a nock length of 13 mm, while the binding is 14 mm long and 2 mm wide.
Collected by L. Gorringe at some time between 1902 and 1912, possibly from Darfung, and donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum by his wife, Mrs L. Gorringe.
For a group of bows collected by Gorringe, and possibly from the Burun, see 1944.10.28-34; for additional Burun arrows, see 1944.10.34-71.
Rachael Sparks 29/8/2005.
Collected by L. Gorringe at some time between 1902 and 1912, possibly from Darfung, and donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum by his wife, Mrs L. Gorringe.
For a group of bows collected by Gorringe, and possibly from the Burun, see 1944.10.28-34; for additional Burun arrows, see 1944.10.34-71.
Rachael Sparks 29/8/2005.
Primary Documentation:
Accession Book Entry
[p.
375] -
Mrs L.
GORRINGE, Rosaries Farm, Ngong, Kenya
.
Specimens collected by her late husband, Captain L.
Gorringe, M.C., in the ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN between 1902 and 1912.
Undocumented.
[p.
383] 1944.10.72-77 - [1 of] Six arrows of the same type [as 1944.10.37-71, cane shafts deeply notched with ebony spike heads tanged into the shaft], with more or less damaged shafts, one without the ebony head.
Same data [Probably the BURUN of DAR FUNG].
Card Catalogue Entry - There is no further information on the object catalogue cards ['Weapons - offensive - Archery - Arrows' RTS 23/7/2004].
Pitt Rivers Museum label - AFRICA, Sudan. Probably Burun tribe of Darfung. Cane arrow shaft. Don. Mrs L. Gorringe. 1944.10.77 [plastic label, tied to object; RTS 26/5/2005].
Written on object - BURUN, DAR FUNG, A.-E. SUDAN. 1944.10.77 [RTS 24/5/2005].
Card Catalogue Entry - There is no further information on the object catalogue cards ['Weapons - offensive - Archery - Arrows' RTS 23/7/2004].
Pitt Rivers Museum label - AFRICA, Sudan. Probably Burun tribe of Darfung. Cane arrow shaft. Don. Mrs L. Gorringe. 1944.10.77 [plastic label, tied to object; RTS 26/5/2005].
Written on object - BURUN, DAR FUNG, A.-E. SUDAN. 1944.10.77 [RTS 24/5/2005].
