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- Museum number
- Am.6442
- Description
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Medicine arrow made of wood, sinew, down (eagle).
- Production date
- 1850s
- Dimensions
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Height: 46 centimetres
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Width: 2 centimetres
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Depth: 1 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- From acquisition notes "medicine arrow".
See Christy Correspondence:
This may be the arrow described in an unsigned, undated note thus:
'A Medicine Arrow of the Sioux, which I found in a deserted Sioux village on the Platte or Athabasca river on the east side of the Rocky mountains. Ill luck attaches to it, when fortune does not favour a man for a time he [?hands over his] medicine arrow & procures another from the council Lodge of his tribe. I found it sticking in the ground & pointing in the direction in which the Indian was gone to whom it belonged that anyone of the tribe who passed & saw it might know his whereabouts - 1850 - Eagles down at the top of it which there was more when I found the wigwams of the village were all made of alders & small, a summer fishing abode only. In winter they use their Lodges made of buffalo hide.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Acquisition notes
- From a collection of more than 1,000 artefacts made by Julius Brenchley in 1865 on a cruise of HMS Curacoa in Solomon Islands, which was divided among Maidstone Museum, the British Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum and Exeter Museum
Register slip reads:
Presd. by Julius L. Brenchley Esq 24.3.1870 (M.)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am.6442
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am1870C1.6442 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Am1870C0324.9