Bow, bowcase, quiver, and arrows (Image withheld)
date: label: Date created
content: 1870-1879
name: label: Culture/People
content: White River Ute (Yampa)
label: Subject
content: Nathan C. Meeker (Nathanial Cook Meeker/N. C. Meeker), Non-Indian, 1817-1879
label: Collector
content: Colonel David Frakes Day, Non-Indian, 1847-1914
label: Previous owner
content: Colonel David Frakes Day, Non-Indian, 1847-1914
label: Previous owner
content: Colonel John Lowe Bartow, Non-Indian, 1842-1897
label: Previous owner
content: Paul Culbertson, Non-Indian, 1872-1936
label: Previous owner
content: Wesley Olin Connor, Sr., Non-Indian, 1842-1920
label: Previous owner
content: Hughes Reynolds, Non-Indian, 1874-1962
label: Seller
content: Hughes Reynolds, Non-Indian, 1874-1962
label: Post MAI/NMAI owner
content: Marion Eppley, Non-Indian, 1883-1960
label: Donor
content: Marion Eppley, Non-Indian, 1883-1960
notes: label: Collection History
content: One arrow said to have been collected from the body of Nathan C. Meeker (1817-1879), the Indian agent for the White River Utes who was killed in what is known as the Meeker Massacre on September 29, 1879; the arrow and remaining items were said to have been collected after the massacre by Colonel David Frakes Day (1847-1914, editor of a Durango, Colorado, newspaper); given by David Day to Colonel John Lowe Bartow (1842-1897, editor of several newspapers in the West) at an unknown date; given by Colonel Bartow to Paul Culbertson (1872-1936, son of a family friend in Cave Spring, Georgia) before 1888; acquired by Wesley Olin Connor, Sr. (1842-1920, head of the Georgia School for the Deaf in Cave Spring, Georgia) at an unknown date; purchased by Hughes Reynolds (1874-1962, a book dealer in Rome, Georgia) at a sale of items from Wesley Connor's estate after 1920; purchased by MAI from Hughes Reynolds in 1947. In March 1948, the arrow that was said to have come from Meeker's body was presented to MAI supporter Marion Eppley (1883-1960, a US Navy captain during World Wars I and II and founder of the Eppley Laboratory of Newport, Rhode Island, makers of precision scientific instruments); the arrow was returned to MAI in 1961 through a bequest in Marion Eppley's will.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: White River Agency; Rio Blanco County; Colorado; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: White River Ute (Yampa)
label: See related items
content: Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 21/547
label: Barcode
content: 210547.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Bow, bowcase, quiver, and arrows (Image withheld)
label: Media/Materials
content: Hide, wood, iron point, feather/feathers, wool cloth, hide thong/babiche, sinew, ochre, paint, tree pitch/gum
label: Techniques
content: Carved, incised, painted, sewn, wrapped, glued, fringed
label: Dimensions
content: 104.00 x 10.00 x 27.00 cm