1886.21.23.4

Collection type

Object

Description

Wooden arrow with long triple fletching and triangular head. For associated quiver and arrows see [1886.21.23 .1 - .12] [EH [OPS move] 1/12/2017]

Long description

Wooden arrow with long triple fletching and triangular metal head. The shaft is bound at both ends and part of the way down with sinew, and the nock end is notched. At this same end, the arrow is fletched with three bird feathers and painted between the feathers with two red bands. [EH [OPS move] 1/12/2017]

Geographical reference

United States of America

Northern America > North America > United States of America

Cultural groups

Plains

Oceti Sakowin - Sioux

Dakota

Person

Field collector Charles Alexander Pope

PRM source Christ Church, University of Oxford

PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History

PRM source Department of Comparative Anatomy, Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1865?, uncertain

Date collected

By 1865?

Acquisition information

Transferred: 1886, uncertain

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Material Bird Feather, Material Pigment, Material Metal, Material Sinew, Process Fletched, Process Bound, Process Painted, Process Notched

Dimensions

Depth: max 8 mm, Width: max 16 mm, Length: max 700 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1886.21.23.4 Other numbers: Pope No. 5

Research and responses

For an account of the Charles A. Pope Collection, see Speaking for Themselves: The Pope Collection of Native American Artifacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum, by Lindsey Richardson (University of Oxford: M.Sc. dissertation in Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, 2001); copy in RDF (Collectors: Pope). [JC 6 1 2004]

Search terms: Archery Weapon, Arrow