Deer Arrow

NA1246

From: Alaska | Klukwan

Curatorial Section: American

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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
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.

Length 63.4 cm
Width 3.6 cm
Credit Line Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905

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