Crossbow. Wooden butt with bow and fixings of metal. Broken limb welded back in place, April '68.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Verbatim coll. place:
Europe
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Metal and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Crossbows
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
May 1909
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Loans:
S1961-1962 #86: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 8, 1962–May 8, 1962), S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1966-1967 #106: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 9, 1967–May 9, 1967), S1967-1968 #119: University of California, Berkeley (March 13, 1968–April 8, 1968), S1967-1968 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 15, 1968–February 15, 1968), and S1971-1972 #4: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 12, 1971–July 26, 1971)