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Object Number 24-20-10/98053
Display Title Bow
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bow, curved wood, notched ends, corded sinew bowstring
Classification
  • Bow
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Sioux?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Materials Wood, Sinew
Dimensions Overall: 104 x 2 x 3 cm (40 15/16 x 13/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 98053
Provenance
Collector C. DuBois Wagstaff (1870)
Collector Maj. Ramsey (1870)
Donor David Wagstaff (1924)

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