Bow, Bow-Case, Quiver, Arrows (20)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1888
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. H M. Creel
label: Donor Name
content: Lt. H M. Creel
notes: label: Notes
content: 22 parts: 1 bowcase/quiver, 20 arrows, and a leather wrist guard with metal button. Bow and some arrows were exchanged out of the collection, but returned as part of the Evans collection, Catalogue No. E361463.
label: Notes
content: Eight grooved and painted wooden shafts, six fletched with three split feathers each and six tipped with triangular metal points. "Kiowa" written on each shaft. This catalog number was originally assigned to a bow, quiver, and twenty arrows. All except these eight arrows were deaccessioned to E.W. Keyser of Washington, D.C. as part of an exchange. 24.25" (62 cm) - 25.75" (65 cm). Records: The catalog lists these as Pawnee, but old exhibit labels identify some in one instance as Southern Arapaho and in another as Cheyenne. The accession lists these as "20 arrows, various tribes." Illustrated in SI-AR 1893, Pl. 45, 64, 80. (A,C,L).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 22
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)
label: Culture
content: Arapaho (Inunaina, Hinono'ei), Southern
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 020615
label: USNM Number
content: E129873-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Arrow / Quiver / Bow Case / Wrist Guard