Partially finished, broad limb tapering toward grip and toward nock, painted with brown and black design.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Martin's Ferry, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Martin's Ferry
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Maker or artist:
Homer Cooper
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bows (weapons)
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1959
Context of use:
1-144272 to 144282 are in sequence to show stages in making a bow like 1-144271, illustrating the steps involved in Yurok Sinew Backed Bow making.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 0.4 centimeters, width 5.8 centimeters, and length 79.5 centimeters
Comment:
made...under direction of Dr. S.A. Barrett" "Process documented on...film by S.A. Barrett." Photo: "16mm color-sound "Sinew Backed Bow and its Arrows" AIF" (American Indian Film Project).
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966), S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965), and S1967-1968 #97: Junior Center of Art and Science (February 27, 1968–May 1, 1968)