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

• 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 66.8 cm, width 2.6 cm, depth 1.9 cm (overall) height 54.3 cm, width 2.6 cm, depth 1.9 cm (part a) height 14.7 cm, width 1.7 cm, depth 1.6 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 3081/0002 a-b