- Arrow Mainshaft
Description: Reed arrow mainshaft with nock, a red painted band, and sinew wrapped around both ends. Dimensions: L 18.0 cm. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 879). - Arrow Mainshaft, Nock Detail
Description: Reed arrow mainshaft with nock, a red painted band, and sinew wrapped around both ends. Dimensions: L 18.0 cm. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 879). - Arrow
Description: Willow twig with an obsidian projectile point lashed on with yucca fiber. Dimensions: Unknown. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 570). - Arrow, Detail
Description: Willow twig with an obsidian projectile point lashed on with yucca fiber. Dimensions: Unknown. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 570). - Arrow
Description: Projectile point bound to a reed arrow shaft with cotton string and modern wire. Dimensions: Unknown. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 937). - Arrow, Detail
Description: Projectile point bound to a reed arrow shaft with cotton string and modern wire. Dimensions: Unknown. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 937). - Reeds, Alternate View
Description: Reed, probably gathered for arrow shafts but unworked. Found loosely wrapped with a length of yucca leaf. Dimensions: L 45.8 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Bow and Arrows
Cultural Period: Puebloan Description: Sinew wrapped bow and arrows. The bow is strung with sinew, and reinforced with the same material, but a crack runs crosswise through the center of the arch. Both arrows have sinew-bound feather fletching and stone points and painted red nock ends. The three-feathered arrow is known to be a replica, and it is likely the other is as well. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Arrow Foreshaft
Description: Arrow foreshaft, nearly perfect with only a bit of tip broken off, and part of reed at either end still socketing the other end of foreshaft. The foreshaft is still bound with sinew for holding the foreshaft in the shaft. Dimensions: Approximately 30.5 cm long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 458). - Arrow Mainshaft
Description: Arrow mainshaft, made of reed grass (Phragmites communis) with a notched end and three split feathers intact and still wrapped with sinew. The other end and wooden foreshaft are missing. Dimensions: 16 inches long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. 457). - Arrowshaft
Description: Hardwood arrowshaft, slender and straight, blunt at one end, with a sharp tip at the other. In hunting small game, wooden tipped arrows are believed to have been frequently used. Dimensions: Approximately 26.5 cm long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. 459). - Arrowshaft Straightener
Description: Oval arrowshaft straightener with transverse groove; stone has been burned. Dimensions: Approximately 9 cm long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 429). - Reeds
Description: Reed, probably gathered for arrow shafts but unworked. Found loosely wrapped with a length of yucca leaf. Dimensions: L 45.8 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Bow and Arrows
Cultural Period: Navajo Description: Wooden sinew-reinforced bow painted black and bearing a singly-ply twisted rawhide bowstring; solid wooden arrow shaft painted red and tipped with tin/iron point and fletched with long black feathers, from Chinle; modern-made Navajo arrow with a metal point and decorated with blue, red, black, and white paint. Dimensions: 52 1/2 inches long (bow); 23-24 1/2 inches long (arrows); 57 cm (modern arrow). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument.