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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
  • Bow
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hadza
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Tanzania
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
Provenance
Collector Frank W. Marlowe

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