Wooden bow with wooden string guard and sinew bow string

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Object Number 36-73-10/6170

Display Title Wooden bow with wooden string guard and sinew bow string

Descriptions

Inventory Description Bow, flared at ends, wood bridge holding sinew bowstring

Classification

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Kutchin?

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America / United States / Alaska

Additional Geographic Terms Yukon, Upper

Materials Wood, Sinew

Dimensions Overall: 151.2 x 9 x 2.7 cm (59 1/2 x 3 9/16 x 1 1/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 36-73-10/6170

Credit Line Gift of Raymon Emerson, 1936

Provenance

Collector General George Crook (Unknown)

Donor Raymond Emerson (1936)

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