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Deer Arrow

Object Number:NA1246
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Chilkat
Tlingit
Provenience: Alaska
Klukwan
Culture Area: Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Bone Point
Wood
Feather
Length: 63.4 cm
Width: 3.6 cm
Credit Line:Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905

Description

Arrow with a wooden shaft. Dark, feather fletching is bound at the nocked end. A slot is present at the opposite end with fiber wrapping around the opening. A long, bone point is detached. The point barbs carved close together on one side.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Alaskan Northwest Coast Collection ( Feb 1926) View Objects in Exhibition

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