Arrow with a long wooden shaft, tapering slightly and reddening toward the nock. Fletching is attached to shaft with a wrapped thread at feather tops and sinew at bottoms. At the tip, the point head (part b) is cast in copper with several serrations along the barbs, and a long, thin bone base sunk into the shaft and secured with wrapped sinew and string.

• 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 63.5 cm, width 3.0 cm, depth 2.0 cm (overall) height 53.6 cm, width 3.0 cm, depth 2.0 cm (part a) height 13.7 cm, width 1.9 cm, depth 0.6 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 good
• Current Location Case 42
• Accession Number 3081/0004 a-b