Bow with 2 arrows. (a) Wood bow with hawk feather near each end; red back, aqua, purple, white, and yellow bars with purple dots on belly; red cotton string. (b,c) Self-pointed red painted wood arrows fletched with hawk feathers; aqua bands at fletched end.
Donor:
Lucille Hollowhornbear and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Mishongnovi, Second Mesa, Hopi Reservation
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Hopi Reservation; Mishongnovi
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Lucille Hollowhornbear
Collection date:
July 1977
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Arrows (projectiles) and Bows (weapons)
Production date:
July 1977
Context of use:
Made for initiation of 4 year old son of collector in the kiva.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(b)— length 52.5 centimeters and length 70.5 centimeters
Comment:
Context of use: Cf. 2-61586 for Jemez kachina doll also made for the initiation. Conservation: Hawk feathers treated with DDT in alcohol.