Part of Bow Set: Quiver/Bow Case
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
label: Collection Date
content: March 6 -7, 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Maj. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee
label: Collector
content: Dr. Henry McElderry
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BOW CASE AND ARROW CASE OF COWSKIN. FIRE BAG OF LEATHER, BOW OF HARD WOOD, PLAIN. ARROWS WITH SIMPLE SHAFTS, PAINTED; POINT OF IRON; THREE FEATHERS, AND BLOOD STREAKS. ILLUS. IN SMITHSONIAN REPT, 1893; PL. 86; P. 679. QUIVER, BOW CASE, ARROW, TOOL BAG. (NOTE, BOW IN THIS ILLUSTRATION IS NOT 8448, IT IS THE BOW NOW T-11055.) QUIVER, ARROWS ILLUS. FIG. 2 + TINDER POUCH AND STRIKER ILLUS. FIG. 8 IN SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHRO., VOL. 2, NO. 5. (PLEASE NOTE THAT BOW IN FIG. 2 IS NOT 8448, IS T-11055). THOUGH CATALOGUED INITIALLY AS TONKAWA, ORIGINAL ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM RECORDS IDENTIFY THIS AS COMANCHE, CAPTURED AT PAINT CREEK, TEXAS, MARCH 7, 1868.-W. MERRILL. 4-27-1990. ADDITIONAL INFO. IN LAB ACC. FILE." Reference: Jones, William K. 1968. "Three Kwahari Comanche weapons captured by the Army at Paint Creek, Texas, March 6, 1868." Great Plains Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 31-47.
label: Notes
content: Listed in original AMM catalog as #148, Comanche quiver, bow, and 9 arrows (scalping knife & sheath, tinder bag, flint, steel & tinder), captured at Paint Creek Texas, March 7, 1868.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Paint Creek / Fort Griffin, Near, Haskell County, Texas, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Comanche (Numunuu)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8448-5
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Quiver / Bow Case