1962 · Keeney
Arrowhead
Prairie of green grass with scattered bushes and dark rounded trees, pink and pale blue clouded sky, three striped conical teepees with smoke rising from their tips and small bronze field cannon on the grass.
- Year
- 1962
- Maker
- Keeney
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Score reels
- Players
- 2
Made by
- Design
- Ed Krynski
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- yellow
- red
- blue
- white
Fingerprint: ARROWHEAD: Three striped conical teepees with smoke rising from tips, brown eagle with spread wings flying above trailing blue-and-red ribbon streamers, seated chief in full white feather war bonnet holding long decorated pipe, mounted rider galloping.
The most memorable element is the enormous yellow-and-red three-dimensional title lettering arching across the sky, with a white-outlined cursive name on a blue arrow pennant beside it. Second, the row of three smoke-puffing striped teepees with '1 or 2 CAN PLAY' in red between the two blue ones. Third, the seated chief in a huge white feather war bonnet holding a long pipe, with a mounted rider galloping at the right. Fourth, the flying brown eagle above the title trailing red-and-blue ribbon streamers.
Setting
- Prairie of green grass with scattered bushes and dark rounded trees
- Pink and pale blue clouded sky
- Three striped conical teepees with smoke rising from their tips
- Small bronze field cannon on the grass
Symbols
- Five-pointed white/yellow star on the blue pennant
- Playing-card-style numerals on the score reels
- White starburst behind the lower figures
- Gold scrollwork and filigree
Lettering
- Huge yellow slab-serif capitals with red inline and white highlight, three-dimensional drop shadow, arranged in a shallow arch; secondary name in slanted white cursive script with white outline on a blue arrow pennant; '1 or 2 can play' in plain red capitals with white outline
Themes
- American indian
- Prairie
- Teepees
- Western
- Frontier
- Eagle
- Cannon
Title on it
- Arrowhead
Text on it
- Keeney's
- ARROWHEAD
- 1
- 2
- 5
- 7
- 1 or 2 CAN PLAY
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Animal | Brown eagle with both wings spread, flying left to right above the title, trailing long blue and red ribbon streamers |
| Man | Seated bare-chested native american man lower centre-left, full white feather war bonnet with red band, yellow/gold loincloth with fringe, holding a long decorated pipe or staff horizontally across his knees, calm expression |
| Woman | Native american woman seated just behind and right of the chief, in a red cloth wrap, partially obscured |
| Creature | Brown and white horse at the right, head lowered and mane flying, galloping |
| Man | Mounted rider on the horse at the right, wearing a feathered headdress with trailing white feathers, leaning forward |
| Other | Small bronze cannon on the grass between the two blue teepees at centre |
A wide landscape-orientation backglass painted in a mid-century airbrushed cartoon style, with a pink-and-blue cloudy sky over a green prairie. Across the top runs a huge yellow three-dimensional slab-serif title with a red drop outline and white highlight; the words arch slightly and lean to the right. To its left a blue arrow-shaped pennant with a yellow star at the tail carries a white cursive name, and above the title a brown eagle with spread wings flies right, trailing blue-and-red ribbon streamers. Below the title sit three striped conical teepees (red/white, blue/white, blue/white) with smoke rising from the tips, a small bronze cannon on the grass, and dark green rounded trees at the left and right edges. Lower half: a seated bare-chested Native American man in a full white-and-red feather war bonnet and yellow loincloth, holding a long decorated pipe or staff across his knees; beside him a woman in a red cloth; at right a rider with a feathered headdress on a galloping horse. Gold scrollwork and a white starburst fill the lower centre.