Arrows

38014B

From: New Mexico

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 38014B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cochiti | Pueblo | Keres
Provenience New Mexico
Culture Area Southwest Culture Area
Section American
Materials Wood | Feather | Metal | Sinew
Description

Five arrows with wooden shafts. Each arrow has the point end painted black and the nocked end painted with stripes of red, blue or black. Brown and white feathers are bound with sinew at the nocked ends. Sharpened, iron points are bound with sinew at the point ends.

Length 63.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Thomas B. Donaldson; subscription of John Wanamaker, 1901

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