Arrow
- Museum number:
- 2-6581
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020006581
- Alternate number:
- x-2774 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Bird arrow. Round, single-pointed bone tip inserted into wooden shaft, secured with sinew; feathers proximal end. Native names: pitegcaun, qerrutviit, yaqulegcuun.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Pastolik, Wade Hampton Borough, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Pastolik
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Rudolph Neumann
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Bone (material), Feather (material), and Sinew (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Arrows (projectiles)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Bird arrow.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- whole arrow— length 62 centimeters, shaft— length 56 centimeters, head— length 6.5 centimeters, head— diameter 0.9 centimeters, and shaft— diameter 0.9 centimeters
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- Legacy documentation:
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