Bow And Arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1885
label: Collection Date
content: 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Sgt. John J. McLean
label: Donor Name
content: Sgt. John J. McLean
notes: label: Notes
content: 1 arrow from this set is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: List in accession file indicates collection was purchased by McLean in Sitka in 1884 and includes "3. Bows and 8 arrows complete from Yakutat" which seems to refer to E75453 - 5.
label: Notes
content: From card: "[Bow] 75454 (Tlingit) and 75455 (Tinne) [i.e. Athabascan] illus. in USNM AR, 1888, Pl. 26, figs. 109, 155; p. 286. [Publication caption identifies bow 75454 as Tlingit type; narrow.] An arrow, # 75454 was lent to the Crossroads of Continents exhibit, Sept., 1988, as # 16407 (by mistake). Hence the object illustrated in the Crossroads catalog as # 16407 [Fig. 76 on p. 73] is actually # 75454. The mistake was discovered when the loan returned Jan. 21, 1993. (S. Crawford, 2-23-93)." Identified in Crossroads catalogue caption as "Harpoon arrow for sea otters."
label: Notes
content: One arrow appears in the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell. The entry on this arrow in the website http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=616 , retrieved 12-30-2011, is the source of the information below: Sea otter arrow, Tlingit, Yakutat, Alaska. Fleets of canoes cruised the coast to find sea otters, encircling one when it was found. Hunters pierced it with the barbed tips of harpoon-arrows, which then dislodged from the shafts, leaving them to trail behind on sinew cords. Otters were depleted in most of southeast Alaska by 1825, but hunting continued at Lituya Bay, Yakutat, and Icy Bay until the early twentieth century. This arrow has a willow shaft and barbed bone tip. Length 123 cm..
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Baranof Island / Sitka, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Yakutat
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 015716
label: USNM Number
content: E75454-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow / Arrow
physicalDescription: label: Length - Arrow
content: 123 cm