Arrow

Museum number:
2-4710
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1 (additional number, Catalogue Raisonné of the Alaskan Commercial Company Collection) and x-1106 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Arrow. Native name: rruu'aq, rruq. Wooden shaft; notched end, bone point serrated one side, barbed on the other and bi-pointed, incised with parallel lines and stained with red pigment; sinew fiber lashing; two radially set feathers. Used for hunting land animals.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Western Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo, Aleut, and Alutiiq
Collector:
unknown
Materials:
Bone (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Arrows (projectiles)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing and 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Used for hunting game and war.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-4710, described as Arrow. Native name: rruu'aq, rruq. Wooden shaft; notched end, bone point serrated one side, barbed on the other and bi-pointed, incised with parallel lines and stained with red pigment; sinew fiber lashing; two radially set feathers. Used for hunting land animals.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-4710, described as Arrow. Native name: rruu'aq, rruq. Wooden shaft; notched end, bone point serrated one side, barbed on the other and bi-pointed, incised with parallel lines and stained with red pigment; sinew fiber lashing; two radially set feathers. Used for hunting land animals.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-4710, described as Arrow. Native name: rruu'aq, rruq. Wooden shaft; notched end, bone point serrated one side, barbed on the other and bi-pointed, incised with parallel lines and stained with red pigment; sinew fiber lashing; two radially set feathers. Used for hunting land animals.

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