Bow with string

Museum number:
11-1287
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.371
Description:
Long bow of pale wood partly blackened. Fiber string, wound with yellow grass. Two black lines along inner side.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Solomon Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Solomon Is.; Melanesia
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowstrings and Bows (weapons)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
May 1909
Department:
Oceania
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow with string, accession number 11-1287, described as Long bow of pale wood partly blackened. Fiber string, wound with yellow grass. Two black lines along inner side.

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