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45-15-986O

From: Montana

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-986O
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Blackfeet
Provenience Montana
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Reed (plant) | Feather | Pigment | Metal
Description

All wooden shafts with wavy grooves; most with painted bands; 3 long feathers (some are nearly half the length of the shaft); sinew binding at ends of feathers and at head. A-W: with iron heads; A large diamond-shaped head; B diamond shape, the butt end very short, pierced at widest point and at one side near point; C, D, E, triangular, tanged, two barbs; F Lanceolate; Q-W triangular to long triangular, T with piercing near butt. X: butt end only. Y and Z: with blunt point.

With bow 45-15-985; belongs with quiver-and-bowcase 45-15-970.

Length 64.7 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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