This arrow appears on an unidentified “American Masonic Symbols” chart of Dabrowski. An arrow pointing downwards is the emblem of Noachite of the 21st degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. I wonder if perhaps this image points in a certain direction?
The image below is from a French book (Liber Mutus Latomorum), supposedly from 1765. The word “byioux” probably simply means “jewel”, most likely the jewel of an unnamed officer. More about that book here.
In Les Plus Secrets Mysteres Des Hauts Grades de La Maconnerie Devoiles Ou Le Vrai Rose-Croix (1766) the image below is published with the last (7th degree) called “Le Noachite ou Chevalier Prussien”. A few pages further, there is an image quite like the one above. In the collection of 81 degrees that became the French Rite, the text of the named degree explains the symbol:
Q. Why do the Christians wear a triangle? R. in memory of the temple of Phaleg
Q. why the inverted arrow!
A. in memory of what happened to the Tower of Babel; the apron and the gans are in memory of all the workers of the tower, the black cord is a mark of sadness
Also (some versions of) Memphis Misraim has a 21th degree called “Patriarch Noachite” with a downwards pointing arrow in a triangle as emblem.
first and second: Dąbrowski P. 180. Year and designer unknown
third: Mutus Liber Latomorum (1765)
bottom: Les Plus Secrets Mysteres Des Hauts Grades de La Maconnerie Devoiles Ou Le Vrai Rose-Croix (1766)