Arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Nov 1947
name: label: Collector
content: Brig. Gen. James D. Glennan
label: Donor Name
content: Frances Glennan
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Wood shafts painted and grooved; fishtail nocks, feathers missing but sinew lashings present; metal arrowheads; sinew hafted, vary in length from 2 to 2-3/4 [inches]. Overall length of arrows 24-5/8 to 25k [inches]. Entered as No. 85 in Glennan's catalog: 'Three of Big Bow's war arrows, carried on the war path [sic] years ago. Given me by Dudley Brown.'"
label: Notes
content: Arrows. Three wooden shafts painted and grooved, fletching missing, two with triangular metal points, point missing on third. 22.5" (57 cm) - 25" (63 cm). Records: Three of Big Bow's war arrows carried on the war path years ago. Given me by Dudley Brown. (C). Associated names: Big Bow. (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Feb 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 177672
label: USNM Number
content: E385894-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Arrow