Arrow with a long wooden shaft (part a), tapering slightly and reddening toward nock. Fletching is attached to shaft with wrapped thread and sinew at feather tops and sinew at bottoms. At the opposite end a long, thin bone shaft (part b) with notching along its length is sunk into the wood and secured with wrapped sinew. The point head is cast in copper with serrations along the barb bottoms and is nailed to the bone.

• Narrative

  Collected by the donor's grandfather, Lorne Lyle, either while he was traveling in the north (Alaska, Yukon, northern B.C.) in 1909-10, or prospecting in Alaska in 1913.

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• Type of Item arrow
• Culture Tlingit
• Material wood, bone, feather, sinew, copper metal, fibre
• Measurements height 68.6 cm, width 2.2 cm, depth 1.9 cm (overall) height 53.6 cm, width 2.2 cm, depth 1.9 cm (part a) height 16.6 cm, width 2.1 cm, depth 0.5 cm (part b)

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• Previous Owner Diane Alexander
• Received from Diane Alexander

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• Made in Alaska

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• Ownership Date before October 2, 2014
• Acquisition Date on October 2, 2014

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• Condition fair
• Current Location Case 42
• Accession Number 3081/0001 a-b