RCMP help once poison-tipped arrows from Africa find their way to B.C. museum
VANCOUVER — Two old arrows from Africa will be looked at by a curator at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia to see if they might be added to its archives after the intervention of North Vancouver RCMP.
Cpl. Richard De Jong says the arrows, which are about 70 centimetres long, are from the Maasai tribes of Kenya and were designed to carry poison.
A senior from North Vancouver who owned the arrows received them from his father in the 1940s, although it’s not known how they were acquired from Africa.
De Jong says the man considered them weapons.