Bow

Museum number:
2-6379
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020006379
Alternate number:
x-2572 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Wood. Possibly for training boys. Two sinew cables lashed to bow with sinew, tied with cotton string at center. Painted red, median groove along whole length of back surface; bow string missing; the reinforcement was made of two cords of sinew, now damaged; this bow probably had no wrapping to hold the reinforcement cords. Yup'ik name: urluvcuar.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Michael
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Materials:
Paint (coating) (red), Sinew (material), and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bows (weapons)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing and 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
to kill muskrat, possibly also for child
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
cross section at middle— length 2.6 centimeters, width 3.4 centimeters, height 2.6 centimeters, cross section at middle— width 3 centimeters, and length 95 centimeters
Comment:
Neg. number: ACC45-16 p. 97 Graburn
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-6379, described as Wood. Possibly for training boys. Two sinew cables lashed to bow with sinew, tied with cotton string at center. Painted red, median groove along whole length of back surface; bow string missing; the reinforcement was made of two cords of sinew, now damaged; this bow probably had no wrapping to hold the reinforcement cords. Yup'ik name: urluvcuar.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-6379, described as Wood. Possibly for training boys. Two sinew cables lashed to bow with sinew, tied with cotton string at center. Painted red, median groove along whole length of back surface; bow string missing; the reinforcement was made of two cords of sinew, now damaged; this bow probably had no wrapping to hold the reinforcement cords. Yup'ik name: urluvcuar.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-6379, described as Wood. Possibly for training boys. Two sinew cables lashed to bow with sinew, tied with cotton string at center. Painted red, median groove along whole length of back surface; bow string missing; the reinforcement was made of two cords of sinew, now damaged; this bow probably had no wrapping to hold the reinforcement cords. Yup'ik name: urluvcuar.

Tools