Bow without bowstring; leather wrapping, some fur; marked "YAS" or "VAS"

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Object Number 2020.3.75

Display Title Bow without bowstring; leather wrapping, some fur; marked "YAS" or "VAS"

Descriptions

Inventory Description Bow, carved wood, cracks, tapered ends, hide strip wrappings, animal hair, no string

Classification

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Hadza

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Tanzania

Materials Wood Hide Animal hair

Dimensions Overall: 152.5 × 2.9 × 2.7 cm (60 1/16 × 1 1/8 × 1 1/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 2020.3.75 / YAS

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

Provenance

Collector Frank W. Marlowe

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PrimaryMedia	Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
	2020.3.74	Bow, dark wood; leather wrapping, some fur; bowstring; marked "NUEKU"	Bow	Tanzania
Media Restricted	2020.3.76	Bow with hide wrappings, some long fur, bowstring	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.85	Bow with 18 groups of leather wrappings, bowstring	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.80	Bow, two leather wrappings, coiled plant fiber at one end; no bowstring	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.73	Bow, light colored wood, leather wrapping in 6 sections; bow string; marked "M N"	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.84	Bow with string, leather wrappings, "LOKALA"	Bow	Tanzania
Media Restricted	2020.3.79	Bow with hide strips, fur; bowstring; marked "G" and a backwards G	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.78	Bow, cracked, wide hide wrappings, bowstring	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.77	Plain bow with bowstring; may have faded marking	Bow	Tanzania
	29-4-50/H853.1	Bows, wood shaft, skin with fur, embossed metal wraps, 1 reed bowstring	Bow	Rock hill Arokanggi Mekbengge's chefferie
	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	Indonesia New Guinea

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