Bow & Arrows Item Number: E76297-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY 1 OBJECT WITH THIS NUMBER SENT TO GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. 1887. LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY 1 OBJECT WITH THIS NUMBER SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885.According to the accession record, Swan acquired 2 crabapple wood bows, with arrows, and 2 mountain yew wood bows, with arrows, from the maker, Tahahowtl or Byron, a Makah Indian of Neah Bay, Washington. These objects were catalogued as numbers E76294 - E76297.See Cat. 120 and 121 p. 195 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entries are on 2 arrows, Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.422 and 71.1885.78.423, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E76297. Note that Smithsonian records only indicate that one object with this number went to the Trocadero. Also, Smithsonian records indicate that a bow and 2 arrows number E76294 went to the Trocadero, however the Branly only has accounted for a bow and one arrow. It is therefore possible that one of the two arrows the Branly identifies as 76297 may possibly be 76294?
Item History
- Made in Neah Bay, Washington, USA
- Collected by James G. Swan in Neah Bay, Washington, USA
- Received on June 19, 1885
What
- Name
- Bow & Arrows
- Identification Number
- E76297-0
- Type of Item
- arrow
Who
- Culture
- Makah
- Field Collector
- James G. Swan
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Neah Bay, Washington, USA
- Collected in
- Neah Bay, Washington, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on June 19, 1885
Other
- Accession Number
- 016163