Bow blank

Museum number:
1-144272
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010144272
Alternate number:
A1 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1286
Description:
Coarse split yew stave, rectangular in section.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Martin's Ferry, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Martin's Ferry
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Maker or artist:
Homer Cooper
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bows (weapons)
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1959
Context of use:
Stave from which a bow can be fashioned. 1-144272 to 144282 are in sequence to show stages in making a bow like 1-144271, illustrating the steps involved in Yurok Sinew Backed Bow making.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 88.7 centimeters, width 8.8 centimeters, and length 1.5 centimeters
Comment:
made...under direction of Dr. S.A. Barrett" "Process documented on...film by S.A. Barrett." Photo: "16mm color-sound "Sinew Backed Bow and its Arrows" AIF" (American Indian Film Project).
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966), S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965), S1967-1968 #97: Junior Center of Art and Science (February 27, 1968–May 1, 1968), S1976-1977 #90: Hoopa Tribal Museum (June 17, 1977–September 11, 1977), and S1978-1979 #25: Hoopa Tribal Museum (October 19, 1978–February 2, 1979)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bow blank, accession number 1-144272, described as Coarse split yew stave, rectangular in section.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow blank, accession number 1-144272, described as Coarse split yew stave, rectangular in section.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow blank, accession number 1-144272, described as Coarse split yew stave, rectangular in section.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow blank, accession number 1-144272, described as Coarse split yew stave, rectangular in section.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bow blank, accession number 1-144272, described as Coarse split yew stave, rectangular in section.

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