Arrow

Museum number:
1-10768
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
757 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.264, Acc.265, and Acc.266
Description:
Pointed foreshaft. Feathered with buzzard feathers. The shaft is of "tebetinil" which grows about 4 ft. high, has red berries, and the wood "smell stink" (rhus trilobata). Foreshaft of oak. Broken from being shot against a rock.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Teshechu
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Fresno; Ticetcu
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
February 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Arrows (projectiles)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used in hunting large birds and small mammals.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Native name: "djonolic" (buzzard), "ntu" (oak).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 1-10768, described as Pointed foreshaft. Feathered with buzzard feathers. The shaft is of "tebetinil" which grows about 4 ft. high, has red berries, and the wood "smell stink" (rhus trilobata). Foreshaft of oak. Broken from being shot against a rock.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 1-10768, described as Pointed foreshaft. Feathered with buzzard feathers. The shaft is of "tebetinil" which grows about 4 ft. high, has red berries, and the wood "smell stink" (rhus trilobata). Foreshaft of oak. Broken from being shot against a rock.

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