Bow

Museum number:
16-5824
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21160005824
Accession number:
Acc.500DN
Description:
One long bow of hard, red wood, with cord and [example?] gut to be wrapped around a good part of the bow, length 77”
Donor:
Mrs. R. A. McGinnis
Collection place:
Brazil
Verbatim coll. place:
About 20 miles north of town of Matto Grosso, between Rio Guapore and Rio Jeruena, Brazil
Culture or time period:
Kabixi and Rikbaktsa
Materials:
Gut (animal material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bows (weapons)
Accession date:
October 25, 1935
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 16-5824, described as One long bow of hard, red wood, with cord and [example?] gut to be wrapped around a good part of the bow, length 77”Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 16-5824, described as One long bow of hard, red wood, with cord and [example?] gut to be wrapped around a good part of the bow, length 77”

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