Arrows "Tsitsi"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Apr 1889
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "For blow gun. Thistle fibre instead of feathers. Modern. 'Blowgun Arrows (Tsitsi): Light shaft about 2 ft. long & sharpened and the end, & made from hickory or from the woody stock of the common bush clover (Lespedeza hista). The base is feathered with thistle down fastened around the shaft with thread or sinew.' - James Mooney Notes." See blowgun, E132998.
label: Notes
content: Albert Naquin, Traditional Chief; Boyo Billiot, Deputy Chief; Chantel Comardelle, Tribal Secretary; and Heather Stone, collaborator; made the following comments during the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, October 23-27, 2017. Albert agrees with Mooney's note that the arrows are tied with sinew.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Eastern Cherokee Reservation, North Carolina, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 021819
label: USNM Number
content: E132997-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dart