Arrow

Culture/People
Yup'ik (Yupik)
Collector
Edward W. Nelson (Edward William Nelson/E.W. Nelson), Non-Indian, 1855-1934
Previous owner
U.S. National Museum (United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History)
Collection History
Collected between 1877 and 1881 by Edward W. Nelson (1855-1934, a naturalist with the US Army Signal Corps on board the "Corwin" and assigned to collect natural and cultural specimens for the U.S. National Museum); purchased by the U.S. National Museum (precursor to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History) in 1897; acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the US National Museum in 1908.
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Place
Point Romanof; Calista Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
See related items
Yup'ik (Yupik)
Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
Data Source
National Museum of the American Indian
Catalog Number
2/435
Barcode
020435.000
Object Type
Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
Object Name
Arrow
Media/Materials
Wood, animal bone, feather/feathers, sinew
Techniques
Barbed
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6b32be4c4-0bd2-49bc-b350-8c7d1e9eecf3
Record ID
NMAI_21639