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Title |
Five Fogs' Quiver and Arrows |
Artist |
Five Fogs (Pahka Pahtahank), Nez Perce Indian. |
Provenance |
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. 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. |
Date.Original |
ca. 1870's |
Present Location |
Big Hole Battlefield National Monument, Montana. |
Subject |
Indians of North America Arrows Textiles Feathers Campaigns & battles |
Object 1 |
Quiver |
Description (1) |
Tapering tube of tanned buckskin covered at the mouth with an 11.5cm x 11.5cm piece of trade cloth and at the tip with an 18cm long piece of trade cloth that tapers from 7.5cm to 5cm. A narrow strip of fringed trade cloth runs along the seam from mouth to tip, and a strap of buckskin is attached 5cm from the mouth and 25cm from the tip. In addition, a trade cloth fringed tassel is attached to the strap near the tip. |
Size (1) |
Length: 63.5cm, Width: 14cm tapering to 7.5cm |
Materials (1) |
tanned buckskin, red trade cloth |
Identifier (1) |
1986.2.92 (WSU), BIHO #621 (Big Hole) |
Object 2 |
Five Arrows |
Description (2) |
Five wooden shaft arrows with triangular metal tips, carved nocks, trimmed hawk or eagle feathers, and painted bands on all but one. They come from a set of ten, the rest of which stayed at the Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. The other five (none of which have metal tips) can be viewed elsewhere in the L. V. McWhorter Native American Artifact Collection. |
Size (2) |
Lengths: 71cm, 62cm, 65cm, 56cm, and 68.5cm |
Materials (2) |
eagle feathers, hawk feathers, wood, metal, sinew |
Identifier (2) |
1986.2.93 to 97 (WSU), BIHO #622.1 to 5 (Big Hole) |
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 |
B/W Tri-X type negatives were scanned on an Epson 10000 XL scanner as 300dpi TIFFs, then added to ContentDM as 72dpi JPEG files at the WSU Libraries. |
Date.Digital |
2006 |