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Title |
Nez Perce Arrows |
Subject |
Indians of North America Arrows Feathers Campaigns & battles |
Object 1 |
Five Fogs' Hunting Arrows (top five in photo) |
Artist (1) |
Five Fogs (Pahka Pahtahank), Nez Perce Warrior. |
Description (1) |
Five hunting arrows with pithy wood shafts, enlarged nocs, partially intact goose or hawk feather fletching, and no points. The tips were flattened on one side with the intention of splicing metal points on them later. |
Provenance (1) |
These are the remaining arrows from the set with their original quiver at the Big Hole National Battlefield Monument in Montana (pictured elsewhere in the L. V. McWhorter Native American Artifact Collection). They belonged to Five Fogs, a participant in the Nez Perce War who was killed while using them at the start of the Big Hole Battle on August 9th, 1877. L. V. McWhorter speculates that these unfinished arrows were apparently fashioned while on the retreat. They were picked up after the battle by S.G. Fisher, leader of General Howard's Bannock Indian scouts, who later passed them to Colonel Frank Parker, an associate scout. Parker's widow eventually gave them to L. V. McWhorter. |
Size (1) |
Length: 85cm, Width: 3.5cm, Diameter: 0.9cm |
Materials (1) |
feathers, wood |
Identifier (1) |
1986.2.87 to 91 |
Present Location (1) |
Spalding National Historic Site, Idaho. |
Object 2 |
Yellow Wolf's Arrows (bottom four in photo) |
Artist (2) |
Yellow Wolf (Hemene MoxMox), Nez Perce Warrior. |
Description (2) |
Only two of these four arrows were made with metal tips. The fletching is mostly intact. |
Provenance (2) |
Made by Yellow Wolf for L.V. McWhorter as replicas of those used in the White Bird Battle on June 17th, 1877. |
Materials (2) |
feathers, wood, metal |
Identifier (2) |
1986.2.64 to 67 |
Present Location (2) |
Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. |
Publisher |
Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights |
For permission to publish, please contact WSU Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections (509)335-6691. This entity maintains intellectual rights for commercial use of any kind. |
Contributors |
Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. |
Source |
L. V. McWhorter Native American Artifact Collection. |
Slide Source |
Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. |
Digitization |
Color slides were scanned using a Nikon Super Coolscan 8000 as 4000dpi TIFFs, then were added to ContentDM as 72dpi JPEG files at the WSU Libraries. |
Date.Digital |
2006 |