Arrow, end of 800 (Plains Indians)

Foto di Freccia, fine ‘800 (Indiani delle Pianure)

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Technique and Dimensions:

Dehusked wooden rod, animal fiber, pens, iron tip

Descrizione:

Metal spikes were sold by whites until the early 1860s, then the Natives learned to make them by recycling household metal items, such as pots; before contact with whites the spikes were made of bone, horn, flint or other hard stones