Bow, cracked, wide hide wrappings, bowstring

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Object Number 2020.3.78

Display Title Bow, cracked, wide hide wrappings, bowstring

Descriptions

Inventory Description Bow, carved wood, cracked, hide wrappings, twisted fiber cordage attached and wrapped at both ends, wrapped sinew

Classification

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Hadza

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Tanzania

Materials Wood Fiber cord Sinew

Dimensions Overall: 151 × 10 × 2.8 cm (59 7/16 × 3 15/16 × 1 1/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 2020.3.78

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
	2020.3.85	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
	2020.3.84	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
	2020.3.74	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
	2020.3.73	Bow, light colored wood, leather wrapping in 6 sections; bow string; marked "M N"	Bow	Tanzania
	2003.1.2132	Bow, lacquered wood with red vegetable fiber wrappings	Bow	Asia
	28-3-10/96756	String of twelve sinew wrappings	Sinew	Ceremonial Cave
	2003.1.1060	Handle, hide & veg. fiber wrappings, crosshatched rounded metal base	Handle
	15-11-10/A2080	Small stick with wrappings of sinew	Wood	Burial Cave; Cave 1

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