Bow

Museum number:
1-4331
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010004331
Alternate number:
1578 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.135, Acc.136, Acc.137, and Acc.138
Description:
Made of one piece of wood, curved with rounded ends. Ends are wrapped many times with twisted fiber. "Self-bow" added in pen.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1904
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bows (weapons)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 320.2 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 1-4331, described as Made of one piece of wood, curved with rounded ends. Ends are wrapped many times with twisted fiber. "Self-bow" added in pen.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 1-4331, described as Made of one piece of wood, curved with rounded ends. Ends are wrapped many times with twisted fiber. "Self-bow" added in pen.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 1-4331, described as Made of one piece of wood, curved with rounded ends. Ends are wrapped many times with twisted fiber. "Self-bow" added in pen.

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