Bow
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1863
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN SMITHSONIAN REPT 1884, pl. VII, FIG. 18, P.316. also FIGS.19, 20. pl.VIII. also pl. IX, FIG. 22, P. 316; also SI AR 1893, pl. 71, FIG. 18 AND pl. 72, AND pl. 73."
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=500 , retrieved 7-17-2018: Bow. Chukchi hunting bows were usually carved from larch wood, although Alaskan birch (found as driftwood) could be used. The reindeer sinew wrappings and backing cord gave added power. Sometimes a flat piece of whalebone would be fastened to the belly of a bow to strengthen it.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chukchi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000321
label: USNM Number
content: E2505-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 125 cm