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Wooden bow
Object Number 36-49-10/6115
Display Title Wooden bow
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bow, tapered to diamond shaped notched ends, thickly corded bowstring
Classification
  • Bow
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Seminole
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Florida
Additional Geographic Terms Glade Cross Mission; Everglades
Materials Wood, Sinew
Dimensions Overall: 115.5 x 3.5 x 0.9 cm (45 1/2 x 1 3/8 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 36-49-10/6115
Provenance
Collector Deaconess Harriet M. Bedell (1936)
Donor Dr. Thomas Barbour (May 1936)

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