Quiver

Tolor

Note: The following text is taken from a 19th-century collection catalog and, in its language and perspective, partially reflects colonial thought patterns. We present the text in its original version to make the collection's history transparent and promote a critical examination of the colonial legacy. Certain terms and formulations may be perceived as problematic today. A 2009 research project concluded that most descriptions are factually correct and still usable; only a few details were found to be inaccurate or incorrect. The results of this project were published in the following collection catalog: https://khm-wmw-tm-library.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1457155265

"24-25. Quivers.
Two quivers, belonging to the blowguns described, both made of bamboo tubes, equipped with easily closing lids. On the outside, decoratively covered with finely split rattan and bamboo braiding, on the side a long hook of buffalo horn which is used to hang the quiver on the belt. Inside the quiver thin bamboo arrows, as described above; with extremely fine heads which have very fine barbs. Heads and barbs, very brittle, break off as soon as the arrow enters a body, and since these heads are also dipped into a poisonous plant juice before they are used, they cause, as mentioned above, infections and high fever which leads more or less quickly to death."

Translation of: Czurda, F. A. J. (1883). Catalog mit Erklärungen der Etnografischen Privatsammlung des Dr. F. A. J. Czurda in Postelberg (Böhmen). (p. 3). Wien, Wilhelm Braumüller