Curved Bow With Lacing Over Skin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: NO NUMBER; MARKED "POINT HOPE". WOODEN BOW, CURVED, SINEW LACING OVER SKIN.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=719 , retrieved 12-27-2021; see web page for additional information: Bow, Inupiaq. The bow and arrow was the primary weapon used on land before guns became available in the 1850s - 1870s. Bows were used for hunting caribou and bears as well as small game including ptarmigan, ducks, and muskrats. Caribou hunters piled up rocks to resemble human figures and built long lines of these pretend inuit ("people") to frighten the animals into corrals where they could be killed at close quarters. Some bows, like this one, were reinforced with twisted cables of caribou or beluga whale sinew that added spring and power to the weapon.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Point Hope, Point Hope Quad, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET16266-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 93.5 cm