Bow

Museum number:
2-5494
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005494
Alternate number:
3485 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13
Description:
Bow with no string. Stained red. "Probably associated with Motoki or Pigeon Society (red ochre stain); cf. letter from John Itellson, Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, 1971." P.M. Jones field catalogue says "war bow".
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Blackfoot Reservation
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada
Collector:
J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 27, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bows (weapons)
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
Probably associated with Motoki or Pigeon Society (red ochre stain); cf. letter from John Itellson, Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, 1971." P.M. Jones field catalogue says "war bow".
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 124 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-5981" Published: "AAE XIII, 9, pl. 47, fig. 12
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-5494, described as Bow with no string. Stained red. "Probably associated with Motoki or Pigeon Society (red ochre stain); cf. letter from John Itellson, Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, 1971." P.M. Jones field catalogue says "war bow".
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-5494, described as Bow with no string. Stained red. "Probably associated with Motoki or Pigeon Society (red ochre stain); cf. letter from John Itellson, Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, 1971." P.M. Jones field catalogue says "war bow".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-5494, described as Bow with no string. Stained red. "Probably associated with Motoki or Pigeon Society (red ochre stain); cf. letter from John Itellson, Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, 1971." P.M. Jones field catalogue says "war bow".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-5494, described as Bow with no string. Stained red. "Probably associated with Motoki or Pigeon Society (red ochre stain); cf. letter from John Itellson, Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, 1971." P.M. Jones field catalogue says "war bow".

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