Bow & string

Museum number:

11-14772

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Accession number:

Acc.1259

Donor:

Mildred Dickeman and University Appropriation

Collection place:

Okuzuha village, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

Culture or time period:

Gahuku

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Bowstrings and Bows (weapons)

Function:

1.1 Hunting and Fishing and 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control

Accession date:

1958

Department:

Oceania

Loans:

S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966) and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)

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