Bow And Arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: BOW MADE FROM AN AERIAL ROOT OF THE MANGROVE TREE WITH A GROOVE DOWN THE INSIDE, AND NOCKS CARVED WITH LARGE AND SMALL V-SHAPED SHIELDS AND POINTS. EIGHT REED ARROWS WITH ELONGATED HARDWOOD HEADS HAVE VEGETABLE FIBER LASHING AT THE POINT OF CONNECTION. TWO ARROWS HAD STING RAY SPINES LASHED TO THEIR POINTS, BUT NOW ARE BROKEN OFF. MARKS> "EX EX SAMOA ISLANDS" WRITTEN ON BOW.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "4852-71. 20 BOWS."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 53 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 9
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E4859-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow / Arrow
physicalDescription: label: Length - Bow
content: 154 cm
label: Unknown - , Arrows
content: 118 cm
label: Unknown - , Arrows
content: 120 cm