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Se 36.32.6
Papua-terr.
Bows and arrows
These are from the bushmen, or so-called Kukukuku, o the Gulf Division Hinterland. They are mostly smallish men who have proved very difficult to pacify. They are skilled bowmen, using unusuallly small arrows. The bow is of palmwood; bow string of bamboo. Arrows have plain palmwood points with the exception of two with bamboo blades and two with flattend palm points.

Samling 1936.32.1-49 är enligt generalkatalogen: "36.32.1-44 gåva av E.Williams, Port Moresby Museum, Papua. 36.32.45-49. gåva av Hon. J.G. Nelson, Woodlark Island, Papua."

Se korrespondansen 1936 och 1937 under Nelson och Williams.

F.E. Williams var "government anthropologist" i Papua och skrev flera studier och rapporter över Papua och Nya Guinea. Två böcker berör samlingen 1936.32.1-49:

Anthropology. Report No. 5. The Natives of the Purari Delta. Port Moresby 1924.

Papuans of the Trans-Fly. Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1936.