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Object Number
45-25-10/28448
Display Title
Ceremonial bow (with 7 arrows, no. 28449)
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Ethnographic wood bow, red coloring on back of bow, face of bow is completely decorated with nine blocks of paint in red, white, black and green framed with black lines at the top and bottom of each new color block. In the two green blocks are further painted decoration of four black dots and a central x. Bow string is made of sinew. Tied to the bow in two areas is a wool string, attached to one of these is a partial white feather. Small black spots all over the wood. Seven arrows (28449) are attached to the bow with a similar wool string.
Classification
- Bow
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
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Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms
Arizona, northeast
Materials
Wood Sinew Wool Feather Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 56.5151 × 6.35 × 1.5 cm (22 1/4 × 2 1/2 × 9/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
45-25-10/28448; 3612
Provenance
Collector
Thomas V. Keam
(1892)
Collector
Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes
(1892)
Donor
Mary T. Hemenway
(May 5, 1945)
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