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Bow with hide strips, fur; bowstring; marked "G" and a backwards G
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Object Number 2020.3.79
Display Title Bow with hide strips, fur; bowstring; marked "G" and a backwards G
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bow, carved wood, wrapped with bands of hide straps and hair, fiber cordage attached and wrapped at both ends
Classification
  • Bow
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hadza
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Tanzania
Materials Wood Fiber cord Hide Hair
Dimensions Overall: 153 × 2.3 × 10.7 cm (60 1/4 × 7/8 × 4 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2020.3.79
Credit Line Gift of Frank Marlowe, Anthropologist, and the Hadza people of Tanzania

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