Arrow
- Museum number:
- 2-6568
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020006568
- Alternate number:
- x-2761 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Bird arrow, toy arrow used for training boys. Wooden shaft, tip lost; feathers at proximal end. Antler, serrated head. Native name: pitegcauksuar.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Rudolph Neumann
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Bone (material) (antler), Feather (material), and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Arrows (projectiles)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing and 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Bird arrow.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- arrow head— height 0.7 centimeters, shaft— length 38.5 centimeters, arrow head— width 0.9 centimeters, arrow head— length 9.5 centimeters, whole arrow— length 48 centimeters, and shaft— diameter 0.7 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
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