Arrow

Description

Ceremonial arrow (heper ay), notched shaft with feather flight, blunt wooden tip carved with abstract designs, used in the bear ceremony (iyomante): Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th to early 20th century

Museum reference

A.1909.499.32

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Arrow, Heper ay

Production information

Unknown
Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia

Date

19th - early 20th century

Style / Culture

Ainu people (Hokkaido), Japanese

Materials

Wood, Feather

Physical description

Carved wood point; shaft of reed or wood notched and feathered

Exhibitions

• Living Lands (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• A Scottish Physician's View: Craft and Spirit of the Ainu from the N. G. Munro Collection (26 Apr 2002 - 01 Sep 2002)
  Historical Museum of Hokkaido
  Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History

References

A Scottish Physician's View: Craft and Spirit of the Ainu from the N. G. Munro Collection (2002), no. 55 (p.70-71)

On display

national museum of scotland »
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world cultures, living lands »
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