1886.1.881.7

Collection type

Object

Description

Reed arrows with sinew bindings. [ASh [OPS move] 28/7/2017]

Long description

Arrow, made of reed having the knots smoothed down so as to be hardly visible. Headed with pieces of light coloured wood, three of which are coloured red, which are smaller and fit into the end of the reed which is strengthened by bindings of thin sinews. These pieces of wood are neatly tipped with small, pointed and serrated pieces of chipped obsidian. [ASh [OPS move] 28/7/2017]

Geographical reference

Chile

Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Chile

Cultural groups

Native American

Person

Field collector N.J. Cole

Field collector HMS Oryx, Portsmouth

PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Date / Period

Date made: On or before 1828

Date collected

?On or before 1828

Acquisition information

Transferred: 17/02/1886 Transferred: 15/05/1950

Materials and processes

Material Reed Plant, Material Wood Plant, Material Obsidian Stone, Process Flaked, Process Bound, Process Painted

Dimensions

Length: max 875 mm, Width: max 18 mm, Depth: max 11 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1886.1.881.7 Other numbers: ?114

Research and responses

Originally labelled 'Chili' and apparently found there. Identified as N. Californian type by comparison with other specimens in PRM. This object is not mentioned in the entry for Cole objects in Collectors Miscellaneous XI Accession Book page 111 [AP 20/7/99]

Letter 59 dated 30 May 1828 in 'Correspondence, Chiefly Mr Duncan's' (AMS 15) is from Lieutenant N.J. Cole (HMS Oryx, Portsmouth), so I think it is reasonable to assume that he is the Lieut. Cole recorded as the donor of a number of items transferred from the Ashmolean to the PRM in 1886. [JC 1 11 2012]

Search terms: Archery Weapon, Arrow