Arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jan 1892
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Geological Survey
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "1 BIRD ARROW WITH BONE HEAD DECORATED WITH ZIGZAGS. 1 ARROW WITH LONG BRASS HEAD. *IDENTIFIED AS "PROBABLY KUTCHIN" BY CORNELIUS OSGOOD, SEPT., 1970, SOLELY ON BASIS OF INDEX ENTRY "TINNE, L. RAMPARTS, ALASKA, PROF. I. C. RUSSEL."
label: Notes
content: One of the two arrows with this number, #2 of 2, is illustrated, under the number E178643B, in Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell; entry on the arrow is http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=276 , retrieved 8-27-2012, which is the source of the information below: blunt-pointed arrow, # 2 of 2 or B: This Gwich'in arrow was made for small game such as ground squirrels, ptarmigan, and grouse but could even be effective against a moose or caribou if it struck the animal's soft belly. The arrow is fletched with hawk feathers and has a blunt point made from water-hardened antler. Red ocher, an iron mineral, was used to paint the zigzag lines. "Caribou antlers or moose - the way they did it, they put it in lake water for a certain time, maybe a month...They took it out, and then next summer, same thing...That antler just become like ivory, even inside, [it became] harder. They treated it for [making] that arrow point." - Trimble Gilbert, Gwich'in, 2004
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. Only 1 of the 2 arrows is on loan (the one for hunting birds with the blunt bone head decorated with zigzags, arrow # 2 of 2 with this number, also called B).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Yukon River / Lower Ramparts, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kutchin (Gwich'in, Dihjii Zhuh)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025293
label: USNM Number
content: E178643-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Arrow
physicalDescription: label: Length - Arrow # 2 Of 2
content: 74 cm