Bow, light colored wood, leather wrapping in 6 sections; bow string; marked "M N"

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Object Number 2020.3.73

Display Title Bow, light colored wood, leather wrapping in 6 sections; bow string; marked "M N"

Descriptions

Inventory Description Bow, light wood, curved, tapered at ends, hide wrappings, fiber cord string wrapped at ends

Classification

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Hadza

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Tanzania

Materials Wool Hide Fiber cord

Dimensions Overall: 142.5 × 2.5 × 2.7 cm (56 1/8 × 1 × 1 1/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 2020.3.73 / M N

Credit Line Gift of Frank Marlowe, Anthropologist, and the Hadza people of Tanzania

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	2020.3.74	Bow, dark wood; leather wrapping, some fur; bowstring; marked "NUEKU"	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.84	Bow with string, leather wrappings, "LOKALA"	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.75	Bow without bowstring; leather wrapping, some fur; marked "YAS" or "VAS"	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.85	Bow with 18 groups of leather wrappings, bowstring	Bow	Tanzania
Media Restricted	2020.3.76	Bow with hide wrappings, some long fur, bowstring	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.80	Bow, two leather wrappings, coiled plant fiber at one end; no bowstring	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.78	Bow, cracked, wide hide wrappings, bowstring	Bow	Tanzania
	53-36-60/10138	Bow of wood with walrus hide bow string	Bow	Siberia
Media Restricted	2020.3.79	Bow with hide strips, fur; bowstring; marked "G" and a backwards G	Bow	Tanzania
	2003.1.2132	Bow, lacquered wood with red vegetable fiber wrappings	Bow	Asia
	62-7-70/3971	Light colored hard wood bow with bamboo bowstring	Bow	New Guinea Indonesia
	985-27-10/60269	Wooden bow. Round in cross-section. 2 pieces of hide wrapped around bow.	Bow	United States

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