"The blowgun was demonstrated by one of the natives to my parents by darting a monkey out of a tree from a great distance."

Vintage Amazon Blowgun – $200 (Shelton, CT)

Vintage Amazon Blowgun from the seventies. This is not a tourist item. It includes the 72” gun, a woven sack that holds the kapok cotton for the end of the dart, the quiver that holds the darts and a Piranha jaw bone to sharpen the darts.

Here is the truth, the whole truth! My parents were adventurous travelers when they where younger. In the mid seventies they made a trip to South America. While in Brazil, they took a trip up the Amazon River as far as their group could go. But that wasn’t good enough for them and they decided to go further up the river against local recommendations. They found transportation and ventured onward. A day or two later, they came across a tribe and befriended them and stayed with them for a couple days. The Blowgun was demonstrated by one of the natives to my parents by darting a monkey out of a tree from a great distance. My mother had to have this Blowgun, so she traded her sneakers for it! That’s THE END of the story!