Boy's Bow & 4 Arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1885
label: Collection Date
content: 1885
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
notes: label: Notes
content: See also NMNH Department of Botany Edward Palmer collections web exhibit page on this artifact: http://botany.si.edu/colls/palmer/narrative_page.cfm?Narr=13&locality= . It is noted there: "The Cocopa created bows and arrows primarily from two plants: Arrow-weed (Pluchea sericea), a woody shrub that grows up to three meters used for the arrow shafts, and Carrizo (Phragmites communis), a large grass native to the New World." Arrow is also described, from publication: ""Shaft, of reed. The shaftment is ornamented with two bands of red paint connected by longitudinal stripes. Feathers, three, seized with sinew. Nock, cylindrical. The sides of the notch are made parallel by cutting into the reed on either side and splitting out a little piece. The point and foreshaft of this arrow are one, made of a piece of hard wood inserted into the reed-shaft and seized with sinew, and at the other extremity sharpened to a long tapering point. Length of shaft, 2 feet 1 ¾ inches; foreshaft, 12 inches." - Mason, O.T. 1894. North American Bows, Arrows, and Quivers. In Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution, July 1893, Plate XLI, fig. 5; p. 679."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham; Akimel O'otham)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 015930
label: USNM Number
content: E76074-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow / Arrow