Arrow with a long wooden shaft, tapering slightly and reddening toward nock. Fletching is attached to shaft with wrapped sinew at feather tops and bottoms. At the tip, the point is cast in copper, with a long, thin base culminating in a wide point with three large serrations on each side of the neck. It is sunk into the wood and secured with wrapped sinew.

Arrow with a long wooden shaft, tapering slightly and reddening toward the nock. Fletching is attached to shaft with a wrapped thread at feather tops and sinew at bottoms. At the tip, the point head (part b) is cast in copper with several serrations along the barbs, and a long, thin bone base sunk into the shaft and secured with wrapped sinew and string.

Arrow has long wooden shaft, tapering slightly and reddening toward nock. Fletching is attached to shaft with a thick thread at top, and sinew at bottom. At tip, the point is sunk into the wood and secured with wrapped sinew. The point is cast in copper, cylindrical in shape, with incised circles and diagonal lines along its length. The tip has 4 outward barbs surrounding the central point.

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.

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

FROM CARD: "WOODEN, OF PAINT BRUSH. CARVED."Appears Northwest Coast style rather than Eskimo.

From card: "Carved."Marked on paddles: Yakutat. Identified as Eskimo on catalogue card but appear more Northwest Coast style? Yakutat is home to a number of Tlingit people. Catalogue card identifies locality as Jackson (i.e Howkan), Alaska. Howkan was originally a Tlingit village, but later became a Kaigani Haida village sometime in the early eighteenth century.

Chilkat blankets, created by a complex form of tapestry twining, are the best-known textiles of the Northwest Coast. Emblems of nobility, they are prized for their crest significance, as well as for their beauty and fine workmanship. The labor-intensive process used to create a Chilkat blanket includes procuring and processing the materials, spinning the mountain goat wool wefts and the cedar bark and wood warps, dying the wefts, and weaving the blanket. The highly abstract designs of crest animals on Chilkat blankets fill the entire design space. The center panel of this design represents a diving whale, with the broad head filling the lower half while the spread-out tail flukes occupy the space along the upper border. A rectangular human face appears in the center of the whale's body.

Gift of Miss Lila McGlinch.

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.