bayonet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV007.7.1
- Description
- This object is made of mild steel in the shape of a long bayonet. It is poorly crafted. It is knife shaped with one sharp edge and has rusted.
- Object History
- Found by members of the White family in a stump locted on their property on Portland Street in Burnaby. in 1939. There were logging camps in the area and early settlers clearing land. This item would have been made by someone with access to a forge.
- Subjects
- Armament
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box; ammunition
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV988.44.202
- Description
- Blank Cartridges - Box. Small buff coloured box with red text, for Winchester .22 Blank Cartridges ammunition. The cartridges are marketed as "EXTRA LOUD" and there were 50 cartridges to a box. The cartridges were manufactured by Winchester Repeating Arms Company in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
- Object History
- Owner worked in theatre including Barkerville (when a museum). Probably for theatrical use.
- Colour
- Beige
- Subjects
- Container
- Container - Box
- Armament
- Armament - Munitions
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hunting bow
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV980.2.132
- Description
- Small maple hunting bow. A leather thong is tied to one end of the bow. It is loose at the other end, although, there is a knot that could slip over the bow. There are traces of green paint on the wood.
Interior Salish: Nlaka’pamux: Spuzzum First Nation
- Object History
- Homer Barnett writes about Coast Salish bows: “the main hunting bow did not differ from the one used in fighting. It was made of yellow cedar root when this wood could be obtained from the mountains. The trunk wood was also used. An alternative was yew. Inferior bows for ducks and other birds were made from hardhack. Bows were about three or four feet long/ The were rather flat and were about the breadth of three fingers at the widest parts on either side of the grip, which was constricted and slightly thicker. They tapered from the centre towards both ends. The ends were curved away from the holder for a better string purchase (1955:100)
- Plant fibres were seldom made into bow strings. More common were two-ply cords of sinew or gut. Atypically, a skin thong was used (1955:101).
- Marks/Labels
- There is writing inscribed on the inside of the bow, which reads: “1925" "Made for me by Spuzzum chief.”
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Spuzzum
- School/Style
- Coast Salish
- Culture
- Nlaka'pamux
- Subjects
- Persons
- Indigenous peoples - British Columbia
- Armament
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