Arrow Item Number: 3081/2 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Arrow with long wooden shaft (part a), tapering slightly and reddening toward nock. Fletching is attached to shaft with wrapped thread at feather tops and sinew at bottoms. At opposite end, a long, thin bone shaft (part b) is sunk into the wood and secured with wrapped sinew. The point head sits in a notch in the bone, and is cast in copper with serrations along the barb bottoms.

Narrative

Collected by the donor's grandfather, Lorne Lyle, either while he was traveling in the north (Alaska, Yukon, northern B.C.) in 1909-10, or prospecting in Alaska in 1913.