Bow
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Bow cord missing." Originally catalogued as Chinese, but reidentified as Japanese. There is a Japanese inscription on the back of the bow grip.
label: Notes
content: Per Kristen Datta, Cheng-Harrell Intern, Archives and Collections Management, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, 2024: "the writing on the bow grip is "Bunsei Era Year of the Tiger 10th Month, Kanagawa Jiemon (文政之寅年十月 神奈川次右衛門)." Bunsei Era Year of the Tiger would correspond to the 1818-1819 lunar year, so I believe the 10th month would land in 1819."
label: Notes
content: Kristen Datta, Cheng-Harrell Intern, Archives and Collections Management, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, in 2024 has provided documentation and proposed provenance for bow E361401. She has also proposed that arrows E361475 may form a set with bow E361401. See pdf copies of her documentation and her student paper attached to multimedia section of this record.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Jan 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E361401-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 217 cm