Bow and arrows
- Museum number:
- 2-4409a-c
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21024409a@2dc
- Alternate number:
- x-555 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Arrows with bow, used for hunting muskrat. (a) sinew-backed bow (b/c) antler or bone tipped arrow. Wood bow, reinforced with a sinew lashing; two arrows have bone or antler with asymmetric points; a string of sinew is wound around each arrow. For the hunt the other end was knotted to the bow. Rib bone; asymmetrically carved point; notched at proximal end to take arrow string. See bow 2-4409a and arrows 2-4409b,c. For hunting small game such as muskrat.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Cavia, Seward Peninsula, Nome Borough
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Seward Peninsula; Cavia
- Culture or time period:
- Malemiut Eskimo
- Collector:
- Rudolph Neumann
- Materials:
- Antler, Antler (material), Bone, Bone (material), and Sinew (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Arrows (projectiles) and Bows (weapons)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Bow for shooting muskrat.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- (a)— length 59.7 centimeters, (c)— length 28.2 centimeters, (b)— length 29.3 centimeters, (b)— diameter 0.5 centimeters, and (c)— diameter 0.5 centimeters
- Comment:
- Second Orig. No.: Neumann #369. Remarks: cf. Nelson p. 157 and Pl. LI, fig. 2. Graburn p. 72 See also Graburn p. 94 See also catalogue #9 Neg number: ACC37-07
- Legacy documentation: