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Object Type: arrow
Museum number: Am,VAN.26.a-b
Description: Arrow made of wood, feathers, fibre.
Production ethnic group: Made by: Northwest Coast Peoples
Excavator/field collector: Field Collection by: George Goodman Hewett
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Columbia River (?); Found/Acquired: Admiralty Inlet (?)
Materials: wood; feather; fibre
Curator's comments: In Hudson 1987 the author notes that these arrows are from two separate sets, listed as Sets 21 and 22. These form part of a group named Group C which were likely collected in northwest California, perhaps from the Hupa, Yurok or Tolowan.
Bibliographic references: Hudson 1987 / Hewett's California Indian Arrows; Gunther 1972 / Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America: As Seen by the Early Explorers and Fur Traders during the Last Decades of the Eighteenth Century (app.1:250-51); King 1994 / Vancouver's Ethnography: A preliminary description of five inventories from the voyage of 1791-95
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Donated by: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks
Acquisition date: 1891
Acquisition notes: Collected on George Vancouver's voyage to Hawaii and the NW coast of North America 1791-1795.
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am,VAN.26.a-b
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Am1891C25.26a-b (old CDMS no.)

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