Arrow Item Number: A2243 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
A pair of arrows (parts a-b). Each arrow has a thick wood shaft with a large bow string notch at the trailing end. The heads are made of lengths of brass rod, flattened to resemble a point and hafted by being forced into a split in the shaft which is bound with green fishing line. The shafts are decorated with a continuous red-brown barber-pole stripe lightly burned into the wood.
Item History
- Made in North America
- Received from Unknown (Unknown)
What
- Name
- Arrow
- Identification Number
- A2243 a-b
- Type of Item
- arrow
- Material
- fibre, cedar wood and brass metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved
- Part A
- height 97.4 cm, diameter 2.1 cm
- Part B
- height 96.7 cm, diameter 1.9 cm
Who
- Culture
- Northwest Coast ?
- Received from
- Unknown (Unknown)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- North America
Other
- Item Classes
- metalwork
- Condition
- good
- Current Location
- Case 31