Arrow

Museum number:
2-6617
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020006617
Alternate number:
x-2810 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Arrow unilaterally barbed antler head inserted into wooden shaft, lashed with vegetable fibers, fletching lost at proximal end. Native name: pitegcaun, qurruq. Used for hunting land animals.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Bering Sea and North, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo and Northern Alaska Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Bone (material) and Feather (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Arrows (projectiles)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Used for hunting land animals.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC25-32; ACC25-34 p. 72 in Catalogue Raisonné of the Alaska Commercial Company Collection, Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology (Graburn)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6617, described as Arrow unilaterally barbed antler head inserted into wooden shaft, lashed with vegetable fibers, fletching lost at proximal end. Native name: pitegcaun, qurruq. Used for hunting land animals.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6617, described as Arrow unilaterally barbed antler head inserted into wooden shaft, lashed with vegetable fibers, fletching lost at proximal end. Native name: pitegcaun, qurruq. Used for hunting land animals.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6617, described as Arrow unilaterally barbed antler head inserted into wooden shaft, lashed with vegetable fibers, fletching lost at proximal end. Native name: pitegcaun, qurruq. Used for hunting land animals.

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