Arrow

Museum number:
2-6660
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-2853 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Deer arrow. Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq. unilaterally barbed point inserted into wooden shaft, secured with sinew; feathers at proximal end. For hunting land animals.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Bering Sea, Western Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska
Culture or time period:
Kuskokwim Eskimo and Northern Alaska Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Bone (material), Feather (material), and Sinew (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Arrows (projectiles)
Function:
1.1.20 Land Hunting and 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Deer arrow.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC53-05; ACC53-04 p. 72 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 2-6660, described as Deer arrow. Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq. unilaterally barbed point inserted into wooden shaft, secured with sinew; feathers at proximal end. For hunting land animals.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6660, described as Deer arrow. Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq. unilaterally barbed point inserted into wooden shaft, secured with sinew; feathers at proximal end. For hunting land animals.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6660, described as Deer arrow. Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq. unilaterally barbed point inserted into wooden shaft, secured with sinew; feathers at proximal end. For hunting land animals.

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