Plain bow with bowstring; may have faded marking

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Object Number 2020.3.77

Display Title Plain bow with bowstring; may have faded marking

Descriptions

Inventory Description Bow, carved wood, smooth, several cracks, twisted fiber cordage knotted at one end with sinew, knotted and wrapped at other end

Classification

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Hadza

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Tanzania

Dimensions Overall: 147.5 × 3.7 × 2.1 cm (58 1/16 × 1 7/16 × 13/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 2020.3.77

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
Media Restricted	2020.3.76	Bow with hide wrappings, some long fur, bowstring	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.78	Bow, cracked, wide hide wrappings, bowstring	Bow	Tanzania
	62-7-70/3971	Light colored hard wood bow with bamboo bowstring	Bow	Indonesia New Guinea
	2020.3.74	Bow, dark wood; leather wrapping, some fur; bowstring; marked "NUEKU"	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.75	Bow without bowstring; leather wrapping, some fur; marked "YAS" or "VAS"	Bow	Tanzania
	2004.1.518	Bow, bowstring only, reed, looped, wrapped and knotted ends, resin	Bow	Asia
	39-39-50/4460	Bow of polished wood - gummed fibre bowstring ("muhetu")	Bow	Nyaruanda
	24-32-50/B3768.1	Bow, carved wood shaft, twisted fiber bowstring, 1 end wrapped, loose	Bow	Uganda
Media Restricted	2020.3.79	Bow with hide strips, fur; bowstring; marked "G" and a backwards G	Bow	Tanzania
	24-32-50/B3699.1	Bow, wood shaft, reed bowstring, both fiber wrapped, fiber bowstring end ties	Bow	Uganda
	62-7-70/3981	Dark wood bow with bamboo bowstring, white feather at one end (55")	Bow	New Guinea Indonesia
	2020.3.83.1	Very small bow with bowstring	Bow	Tanzania

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