Light colored hard wood bow with bamboo bowstring

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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

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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PrimaryMedia	Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
	62-7-70/3989	Light colored hard wood bow with bamboo bowstring and raffia (61")	Bow	New Guinea Indonesia
	62-7-70/3991.2	Light colored hard wood bow with bamboo bowstring and raffia (58")	Bow	New Guinea Indonesia
	62-7-70/3991.1	Light colored hard wood bow with bamboo bowstring and raffia (58")	Bow	New Guinea Indonesia
	62-7-70/4004	Hard wood bow with bamboo bowstring (54")	Bow	New Guinea Indonesia
Image Not Available for Hard wood bow with bamboo string (64")and 7 bamboo arrows - carved tips and trac	62-7-70/3993	Hard wood bow with bamboo string (64")and 7 bamboo arrows - carved tips and trac	Bow	Indonesia New Guinea
	62-7-70/3976	Dark hard wood bow with bow string of bamboo wrapped with raffia +	Bow	New Guinea Indonesia
	2004.1.573	Bow, bamboo bowstring, broken, oned end looped and wrapped	Bow	Oceania
	62-7-70/3985	Dark wood bow with bamboo bowstring (52 1/2")	Bow	New Guinea Indonesia
	64-37-70/4610	Hard dark wooden bow with bamboo bow string (66 1/2")	Bow	Papua New Guinea
	62-7-70/3981	Dark wood bow with bamboo bowstring, white feather at one end (55")	Bow	New Guinea Indonesia
	62-7-70/3974	Dark wood bow with bamboo bowstring attached with raffia (65")	Bow	Papua New Guinea
	56-31-60/10616	4 foot curved wooden bow - no bowstring	Bow	Mongolia

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