- 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. Vertical grooves run down the shaft, mostly straight but becoming wavy as they near the nock end. 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 a single dark blue band. [EH [OPS move] 1/12/2017]
- Geographical reference
- 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 7 mm, Width: max 22 mm, Length: max 619 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.21.23.7 Other numbers: Pope No. 5
- Research and responses
Originally entered on database as Lakota (Sioux). [CW 14 5 99]
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