Bow

Museum number:
2-6372
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020006372
Alternate number:
x-2565 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Sinew-backed, sinew wrappers, carved ivory section in center to tighten cable. Sinew bowstring has center wrapped with spruce root. Wood, carved; section of the wood mostly rectangular, a bit convex on backside; on front surface: reinforced with sinew cord wrapping, as well as its middle with a long antler slab (61 cm) placed between sinew & wood; on backside. Yup'ik name: urluveq.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
NW Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo and Alutiiq
Collector:
unknown
Materials:
Antler (material), Root (plant material) (spruce), and Sinew (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowstrings and Bows (weapons)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
hunting fish, birds andland mammals
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
whole— height 3 centimeters, whole— width 5 centimeters, and whole— length 1.48 meters
Comment:
Photo: 15-5981. Published: A.A.E. XIII, 9, pl. 47, fig. 9. Neg. number: ACC 45-15; ACC 45-15 p. 956 Graburn
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), S1966-1967 #102: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (May 3, 1967–May 3, 1967), S1966-1967 #106: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 9, 1967–May 9, 1967), S1967-1968 #61: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (November 17, 1967–November 17, 1967), S1969-1970 #42: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/William S. Simmons (October 27, 1969–October 27, 1969), S1970-1971 #143: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 11, 1971–June 16, 1971), S1971-1972 #4: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 12, 1971–July 26, 1971), and S1972-1973 #47: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/William S. Simmons (January 19, 1973–January 19, 1973)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-6372, described as Sinew-backed, sinew wrappers, carved ivory section in center to tighten cable. Sinew bowstring has center wrapped with spruce root. Wood, carved; section of the wood mostly rectangular, a bit convex on backside; on front surface: reinforced with sinew cord wrapping, as well as its middle with a long antler slab (61 cm) placed between sinew & wood; on backside. Yup'ik name: urluveq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-6372, described as Sinew-backed, sinew wrappers, carved ivory section in center to tighten cable. Sinew bowstring has center wrapped with spruce root. Wood, carved; section of the wood mostly rectangular, a bit convex on backside; on front surface: reinforced with sinew cord wrapping, as well as its middle with a long antler slab (61 cm) placed between sinew & wood; on backside. Yup'ik name: urluveq.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-6372, described as Sinew-backed, sinew wrappers, carved ivory section in center to tighten cable. Sinew bowstring has center wrapped with spruce root. Wood, carved; section of the wood mostly rectangular, a bit convex on backside; on front surface: reinforced with sinew cord wrapping, as well as its middle with a long antler slab (61 cm) placed between sinew & wood; on backside. Yup'ik name: urluveq.

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