Bow And Arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: STRAIGHT FLAT BOW, STAINED BLACK ON THE FRONT, AND HAVING BLACK STAINED PARALLEL LINES RUNNING DOWN THE MIDDLE OF INSIDE. THE ENDS OF THE BOW ARE NOTCHED AND HAVE LASHING OF VEGETABLE FIBER. ELEVEN ARROWS MADE OF REED WITH INCISED AND BLACKENED DESIGNS ALONG FULL LENGTH. ARROWS HAVE HARDENED AND SHARPENED WOODEN POINTS, SOME WITH ADDITIONAL BARBS AND DECORATION, INSERTED INTO THE REED SHAFTS WHICH ARE DEVOID OF FLETCHING. SOME OF THE POINTS ARE STAINED A DARK RED COLOR. BOW HAS "N. ZEALAND" WRITTEN ON IT, SINCE IT WAS COLLECTED IN NEW ZEALAND.
label: Notes
content: ACCORDING TO THE LEDGER THE BOW UNDER THIS CATALOGUE NUMBER WAS EXCHANGED WITH ANTON HEITMULLER, APPARENTLY HEITMULLER TRADED IT WITH VICTOR JUSTICE EVANS, AND THE BOW RETURNED TO THE MUSEUM WITH THE ACCESSION OF THE EVANS COLLECTION, ACCESSION # 113605. THE BOW ALSO HAS THE EVANS CATALOGUE NUMBER # E361728.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "1 BOW AND 11 ARROWS. SEE CAT. 361728, WHICH IS FOR THE BOW ONLY. APPARENTLY HEITMULLER TRADED IT TO V. J. EVANS, FROM WHOM U.S.N.M. THEN OBTAINED IT BACK AGAIN."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 568 - 578 as "Bows from Bogainville Island, obtained from a Whaler in New Zealand."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 12
place: label: Place
content: Bougainville Island, North Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Melanesian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3875-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow / Arrow