Bow

Museum number:
5-666
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.628
Description:
Reflexed bow, compound, limbs bound over all with waxed thread, leather, grip
Donor:
Elizabeth Pope and Emma Pope
Collection place:
Sudan
Verbatim coll. place:
Hamitic Africa, possibly Nubia (Eastern Sudan)
Materials:
Leather
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bows (weapons)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1927
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Loans:
S1961-1962 #57: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 3, 1962–April 3, 1962)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Bow, accession number 5-666, described as Reflexed bow, compound, limbs bound over all with waxed thread, leather, gripHearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Bow, accession number 5-666, described as Reflexed bow, compound, limbs bound over all with waxed thread, leather, gripHearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Bow, accession number 5-666, described as Reflexed bow, compound, limbs bound over all with waxed thread, leather, grip
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 5-666, described as Reflexed bow, compound, limbs bound over all with waxed thread, leather, grip

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