Arrow
- Museum number:
- 1-225740
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010225740
- Accession number:
- Acc.2765
- Description:
- Self-nocked; hardwood shaft, probably commercial maple doweling; with straight three feather fletching bound at each end with sinew; steel point; sinew bound; red and green ring crest at fletching. Made of Steel, hardwood, feathers, paint, and sinew.
- Donor:
- Anne Perley
- Collection place:
- San Francisco County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; San Francisco; San Francisco
- Culture or time period:
- Yana
- Maker or artist:
- Ishi
- Collector:
- Jean Valjean Cooke
- Collection date:
- 1911-1916
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Arrows (projectiles)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1971
- Context of use:
- Made by Ishi at the Museum; given as gift to Dr. Cooke.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 76.5 centimeters
- Comment:
- Native name: s.a' wa (after Sapir). References: UCPAAE 13:2, 13:3; UCPAR 3:3.
- Legacy documentation:
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