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1886.21.24.1

Animal hide quiver and bow case, fringed and beaded. For associated arrows see [1886.21.24 .2 - .6] [BS [OPS move] 13/9/2017]

1886.21.24.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Animal hide quiver and bow case, fringed and beaded. For associated arrows see [1886.21.24 .2 - .6] [BS [OPS move] 13/9/2017]
Long description
Animal hide quiver and bow case. The bow case is sub rectangular, fringed and beaded along both short ends. The quiver is narrower and longer than the bow case and is similarly fringed and beaded. The two compartments are connected by a strip of hide which loops around on side for carrying and both ends at one side are fringed and decorated with blue and white beads. [BS [OPS move] 13/9/2017]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1865?, uncertain
Date collected
By 1865?
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1886, uncertain
Materials and processes
Material Animal Skin, Material Bead, Material Wood Plant, Process Beadwork, Process Cutwork
Dimensions
Depth: max 60 mm, Length: max 1410 mm, Width: max 695 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.21.24.1 Other numbers: Pope no. 8
Research and responses

Seen by Neil Gilbert, 1998, who has an amateur interest in Native American material. He thinks this quiver might have been made pre-1855 as it has distinctive blue and white 'pony beads' on it which were used prior to 1855.

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, Quiver, Bow Case

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