Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected or received as a gift between 1941 and 1945 by Muriel Lester (1885-1968, a noted pacifist and Traveling Secretary for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation) while travelling in Uruguay; donated to MAI by Muriel Lester in 1946.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Charrúa (Charrua)
- Possible collector
- Muriel Lester, Non-Indian, 1885-1968
- Previous owner
- Muriel Lester, Non-Indian, 1885-1968
- Donor
- Muriel Lester, Non-Indian, 1885-1968
- Object Name
- Arrow foreshaft
- Media/Materials
- Iron point, wood, cordage
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
