Arrow - Ruuwaq
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center > Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center Alutiiq/Sugpiaq Ethnographic Collection
1988.048.004
Wood/Plant material;Feather
Height: .5"
Width: 1.5"
Length: 20.25"
19th century
Possibly Alutiiq, ca. 19th century Collected by the donor's grandfather, Harlow Harvey Amos Hastings, who was a lawyer in Southeast Alaska (Juneau ?) in 1892. Collected by Harlow H. A. Hastings in 1892; gift of D. D. Hastings.
Wooden arrow with an unpainted shaft which has the nock end broken off and is missing the arrowhead. The shaft is fletched with two feathers, which due to the break are not anchored at the nock end. One of the two feathers is broken nearly through. The feathers are held in place by a wrapping of vegetal material similar to spruceroot, with another loose wrapping at the arrowhead end of the shaft.