article_snippet: The image above shows arrows from China that were used in a crossbow that were dipped in poison .
article_snippet: This wooden spatula from Malaysia wrapped in a palm leaf was used to apply poison to darts used for hunting .
article_snippet: The image on the right shows a pot of curare, a plant-based poison which is still used by some indigenous hunter-gatherers in South America to coat darts and arrows .
article_snippet: These include a 1926 Chinese pot containing Aconite poison inside, Malaysian darts tipped with the poison Upas, Chinese crossbow arrows and a number of African arrows.
article_snippet: The Yanomami people in the Amazon rainforest use curare - a mix of bark scrapings from Strychnos vines - to tip The Yanomami people in the Amazon rainforest use darts and arrows when hunting.
article_snippet: The use of curare was once common among indigenous populations in South America.
article_snippet: The researchers have used starch grains like the ones shown on the left from the plant Aconitum napellus  to help identify poisonous materials.
article_snippet: In Africa hunters use another species of Strychnos to produce the poison strychnine, while other plants like Acokanthera, and Strophantus are also used.
article_snippet: Initial tests strongly suggest the presence of Acokanthera, a poisonous plant on our database, but our can’t be completely certain as there are a number of components in the compound. '