Arrow
- Museum number:
- 2-6619
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020006619
- Alternate number:
- x-2812 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq. unilaterally barbed bone point inserted into wooden shaft, lashed with sinew; fletching lost on notched proximal end.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Bering Sea, Western Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Eskimo
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Materials:
- Bone (material) and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Arrows (projectiles)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Used for hunting big game.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- arrow head— width 1 centimeters, whole arrow— length 76 centimeters, arrow head— length 16.5 centimeters, shaft— diameter 1 centimeters, shaft— length 59 centimeters, and arrow head— height 1.3 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
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