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Light colored hard wood bow with bamboo bowstring
Light colored hard wood bow with bamboo bowstring
Object Number 62-7-70/3971
Display Title Light colored hard wood bow with bamboo bowstring
Descriptions
Inventory Description Carved wood bow, slightly curved, tapered at both ends, fiber or bamboo wrapped at each end, fiber coated in dark unidentified material, bamboo string detached, string knotted at each end
Classification
  • Bow
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Dani
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Guinea
Oceania / Indonesia
Additional Geographic Terms Grand Valley of Baliem
Materials Wood, Bamboo
Dimensions Overall (measurement of wooden bow): 144.5 × 2.8 × 1 cm (56 7/8 × 1 1/8 × 3/8 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 62-7-70/3971 ; 62-7-70/3991

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