Hupa Arrow Replica 2 SOLD

This arrow is a spot-on copy of one that's held in the collections of the Smithsonian in Wahsington, D.C.  All the materials used on the original arrow are copied here including wood species, construction techniques, paint design and dimensions.  

The main shaft is syringa.  Horsetail rush grooves were faithfully applied on this arrow and the paint design exactly copies the original.  The fletch is Canada goose wing feathers that have been wrapped on either end with sinew and then glued to the shaft with hide glue.  There are 3 straight shaft grooves on this arrow (as there were on the original).  Although more common on the Plains, these shaft grooves are fairly common on Hupa arrows too, with about 50% of west coast arrows showing these same grooves.  The foreshaft is serviceberry and a beautiful, mustard yellow side notched point of jasper was secured to the front with pine sap glue and deer sinew (the original arrow had an identical jasper point). It's meticulously made, as were the arrows from that region.  

Arrow Specs: Syringa shaft, serviceberry foreshaft, deer sinew wrappings, jasper point.  32 inches long.

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