Quiver & 9 Arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Feb 1895
label: Collection Date
content: 1894 to 1895
name: label: Collector
content: William J. McGee
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ARROW.--SHAFT MADE IN TWO PIECES, THE UPPER OR FEATHER END BEING A SECTION OR REED (PHRAGMITUS COMMUNIS), 24 3/4" LONG, 3/8" IN DIAMETER AT NOTCH, 7/16 AT OTHER EXTREME, WHILE THE LOWER OR POINTED END, IS A TAPERING STICK OF ARROW BIRCH, 9" LONG, 3/8" IN DIAMETER AT ONE END, AND 3/16" WHERE POINT IS ATTACHED. THESE TWO PIECES OF SHAFT ARE CAREFULLY JOINED BY FORCING THE BIRCH-WOOD PIECE INTO THE OPEN END OF THE REED, THE JOINT BEING TIGHTLY WRAPPED WITH SINEW. THE POINT IS A TRIANGULAR PIECE OF HOOP IRON, 1 3/4" LONG, 3/4" WIDE ACROSS THE BARBS, TAPERING TO A VERY SHARP EXTREMITY; THE BARBS ARE DEEP-CUT AND QUITE SHARP-TIPPED; THE ENTIRE MARGIN OF THE POINT HAS BEEN GROUND TO A KNIFE EDGE. THE POINT IS ATTACHED FIRMLY TO THE SHAFT BY NOTCHING THE END FOR 1/4", AND PRESSING THEIRON BLADE INTO IT WHILE WELL COATED WITH MESQUITE-GUM CEMENT; A FINAL TRANSVERSE WRAPPING OF SINEW AT THE JOINT, OVER THE CEMENT AND FOR AN INCH ALONG THE BIRCCH, COMPLETES THE OPERATION. THE ARROW HAS THREE FEATHERS, PROBABLY PELICAN, 6" LONG, TRIMMED TO 3/16" WIDE; THE QUILL HAS BEEN REMOVED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ANARROW RIBBON 1/16" WIDE, TO WHICH THE RAMI OR BARBS ARE ATTACHED. THE FEATHERS." CONT.SEE CARD.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jun 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Sonora, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Seri (Comcaac)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029025
label: USNM Number
content: E174496-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Arrow