Bow with 18 groups of leather wrappings, bowstring

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Object Number 2020.3.85

Display Title Bow with 18 groups of leather wrappings, bowstring

Descriptions

Inventory Description Bow, wood, curved, tapered at ends, multiple hide strap wrappings, fiber cord string, wrapped at ends

Classification

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Hadza

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Tanzania

Materials Wood Hide Fiber cord

Dimensions Overall: 168 × 3.5 × 2.8 cm (66 1/8 × 1 3/8 × 1 1/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 2020.3.85

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

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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
	2020.3.74	Bow, dark wood; leather wrapping, some fur; bowstring; marked "NUEKU"	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.84	Bow with string, leather wrappings, "LOKALA"	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.80	Bow, two leather wrappings, coiled plant fiber at one end; no bowstring	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.78	Bow, cracked, wide hide wrappings, bowstring	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.73	Bow, light colored wood, leather wrapping in 6 sections; bow string; marked "M N"	Bow	Tanzania
	2020.3.75	Bow without bowstring; leather wrapping, some fur; marked "YAS" or "VAS"	Bow	Tanzania
	2003.1.2132	Bow, lacquered wood with red vegetable fiber wrappings	Bow	Asia
Media Restricted	2020.3.79	Bow with hide strips, fur; bowstring; marked "G" and a backwards G	Bow	Tanzania
	62-7-70/3971	Light colored hard wood bow with bamboo bowstring	Bow	Indonesia New Guinea
	2003.1.1060	Handle, hide & veg. fiber wrappings, crosshatched rounded metal base	Handle
	39-39-50/4462	Bow of polished wood - gummed fibre bowstring ("muhetu")	Bow	Nyaruanda

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