Bow & Arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Jun 1885
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY 1 OBJECT WITH THIS NUMBER SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885. Ledger indicates 1 object with this number sent to T.F. Spangler 2-1886.
label: Notes
content: According to the accession record, Swan acquired 2 crabapple wood bows, with arrows, and 2 mountain yew wood bows, with arrows, from the maker, Tahahowtl or Byron, a Makah Indian of Neah Bay, Washington. These objects were catalogued as numbers E76294 - E76297.
label: Notes
content: See Cat. 122 p. 195 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is one arrow, Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.433, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E76296.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Jan 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Neah Bay, Clallam County / Neah Bay, Washington, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Makah
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016163
label: USNM Number
content: E76296-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Arrow