Rifle

Description

Rifle belonging to the 30 series and manufactured by the Winchester company, of New Haven, Connecticut, United States. It has a wooden stock and a metal butt plate (the curved part rests on the shoulder when shooting). This model of rifles had technology that allowed it to operate with smokeless powder cartridges (a novelty at the time).

It was donated to the Museum to bear witness to the armed confrontations between the Yaquis and the federal government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rifles of this brand were first used in Mexico in the war against the Yaquis.