Notes

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. 1 bow and 1 blunt-tipped arrow (of 2) included on loan.From card: "Bow illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 26, fig. 114; p. 286."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on bow and 1 blunt-tipped arrow http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=619 , retrieved 5-21-2012: Bow and arrow, Haida. Hunters shot ducks and geese with blunt-tipped wooden arrows, and they continued to use the bow and arrow on some occasions even after firearms were introduced. Haida bows were made of yew wood and relatively broad in the middle, tapering to the tips. Men carried their arrows in quivers made of seal or sea otter skin.