Social Sciences and the Law

What poison was used on blowgun arrows?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/poison-used-blowgun-arrows-82042.html" >What poison was used on blowgun arrows?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

The arrow was usually tipped with a poison, such as curare, which would stun or kill the struck prey.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about blowgun . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: What kind of poison is used in blowguns? What is curare? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

The Amazon's people: among Brazil's rain forest tribes.
Magazine article from: World and I ...Para. These people hunt with bows and arrows, spears, and blowguns; their darts are often coated with a paralyzing poison. Their diet includes alligator, monkey...cassava roots) and bananas. Maniac is used to make flour and is fermented to make...
Blowpipe dart poison in Borneo and the secret of its production: the latex of...
Magazine article from: Borneo Research Bulletin Blowpipe dart poison in Borneo is generally...flight path of a heavy arrow is not straight but...the animal is the poison, not the dart itself...the dart hits, the poison diffuses very rapidly...points of the darts used for hunting small...distance than the blowgun. Therefore, some...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.