Borneo Dart Quiver

[Maurice]

Dart Quiver complete with poison-package.

[colin henshaw]

Very nice indeed...

[Gavin Nugent]

Very nice indeed and so complete, congrats on a nice find....

Gav

[asomotif]

Yessssss... Go rub it in !!! ;) :D

Very nice one Maurice.
How could I have been so stupid not to buy this one immediately when I saw it :shrug:

[Maurice]

Yessssss... Go rub it in !!! ;) :D

Very nice one Maurice.
How could I have been so stupid not to buy this one immediately when I saw it :shrug:
Hi Willem,

don't wory. It is just a bit bamboo with some toothpegs, and a little ratpoison.:p

[asomotif]

some toothpegs, and a little ratpoison

Be carefull Maurice,
Don't use poisonous toothpegs, unless you made up your will, leaving this quiver to me ;) :D

[Marcokeris]

Very very nice

[trenchwarfare]

That poison vial looks very much the "Monkey Scrotum" powder flask I posted a while back. Maybe it's not a powder flask?

[Maurice]

That poison vial looks very much the "Monkey Scrotum" powder flask I posted a while back. Maybe it's not a powder flask?


No monkey scrotum for sure. In the middle there are pieces of poison, and some poison sticked on little wooden sticks. Wrapped around that is some kind of leave (I guess bananaleave). And that package is wrapped with the treebark you can see, wrapped with a cord to keep it closed.

Unfortunately I have some trouble with my photocamera. but I will attache pics when package is open soon.

I attached a picture out of the book "quer durch Borneo" by Nieuwenhuis. Here you also can see a package of poison.

[asomotif]

Hihi... monkeyscrotum :D


http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=8274

With the quivers comes a "hung"which is a gourd made from calabash, being some kind of fruit.
There are pretty amazing gourds around. I have seen Edo period japanese ones, inlaid with silver and all.