Arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jan 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Lucien M. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "90138 - ARROW ILLUS. IN SMITHSONIAN REPT 1893; PL. 58, FIG. 4; P. 679, ALSO PL. 60, FIG. 2." FROM OLD LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL FILED WITH CARD FOR E30014: "QUIVER [30014], BOW [34055] AND ARROWS [90138].---BOW CASE AND ARROW SHEATH SEPARATE, MADE OF WHITE SEALSKIN. BOW OF ANTLER, IN THREE PIECES, FASTENED TOGETHER WITH IRON RIVETS AND SEIZING IN SINEW CORD ABOUT THE MIDDLE. ARROWS, WITH SHAFTS OF DRIFTWOOD; WIDE IRON HEAD SOCKETED; NOCK, WIDE AND FLAT; TWO FEATHERS LAID ON FLAT. SEIZING ALL OF SINEW. ESKIMO OF CUMBERLAND GULF. QUIVER, 30,014; BOW, 34,055; ARROWS, 90,138. COLLECTED BY L. KUMLIEN [34055] AND LUCIEN TURNER [90138]."
label: Notes
content: Anthropology catalogue ledger book indicates that E90137 was the catalogue number for the bow, E90138 was the number for the 7 arrows (8 arrows with this number located as of 2012), and E90139 was the number for the bow case (not located as of 2012). Arrows #6 of 8 and #7 of 8, Turner original # 3137, are squirrel or hare arrows, per Turner's notes.
label: Notes
content: Arrows #6 of 8 and #7 of 8, Turner original # 3137, are illus. and described p. 127 in Turner, Lucien M., Scott A. Heyes, and K. M. Helgen. 2014. Mammals of Ungava & Labrador: the 1882-1884 fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu knowledge. Identified there: "These arrows collected by Turner in 1884 at F. Chimo, were fashioned by the Inuit from driftwood to hunt squirrels and hares."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Ungava Bay, Quebec, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013922
label: USNM Number
content: E90138-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Arrow