crossbow w/ bamboo bowstring, bamboo quiver and 12 darts; a) crossbow: tropical forest hardwood, mahogany famlily; bone trigger; l. bow 1.18 M., l. stock 55.6 cm.; b) bamboo bowstring, l. 1.19 M.; c) bamboo quiver, l. 41 cm.; d - o) 12 bamboo darts with folded palm leaf fletching; average l. 46 cm.
Donor:
Herbert E. Garcia and Mrs. Herbert E. Garcia
Collection place:
Vietnam
Verbatim coll. place:
Vietnam, Dak To (north of Pleiku), Montagnard
Collector:
Herbert E. Garcia
Collection date:
1965-1966
Materials:
Bamboo (material), Bone (material), and Palm leaf (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowstrings and Quivers
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
August 1, 1975
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
a) - stock— length 55.6 centimeters, c— length 41 centimeters, b— length 119 centimeters, a— length 118 centimeters, and d - o— length 46 centimeters