THREE INDONESIAN BAMBOO DART QUIVERS AND A GROUP OF DARTS

Late 19th / Early 20th Century

Each quiver of cylindrical form and topped with a rattan cover, one of the quivers containing several darts housed in bamboo sheathes,

35.5 - 42cm high

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Provenance: from a British private collection of Malay descent

來源：英籍馬來私人收藏

Note: These quivers, known as sooweppah, are used to hold the darts of a blow-shooter, a tool used to hunt birds perched atop branches. A related example is in the British Museum, acc. no. As1933,0307.20.a.