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Object Number 40-12-70/1797
Display Title Wooden hunting bow
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bow, flat wood bow, tapered ends, fiber string attached both ends
Classification
  • Bow
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Eivo
  • Konua
  • Keriaka
  • Rotoke
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Solomon islands / <State> / Bougainville Island
Dimensions Overall: 163 x 3.3 x 4.5 cm (64 3/16 x 1 5/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 40-12-70/1797
Provenance
Collector Dr. Douglas L. Oliver (1937-1939)
Collector Eleanor Oliver (1937-1939)
Donor Donated by Dr. Douglas L. Oliver (1940)
Donor Donated by Eleanor Oliver (1940)

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