Bow
name: label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THE BOW IS OF SPRUCE WOOD, NEARLY STRAIGHT THE LIMBS ARE MUCH NARROWER THAN IS USUAL IN THE SOUTHERN REGION, WITH LONG TAPER TOWARDS THE KNOCKS AND A SLIGHT NARROWING AND THICKENING AT THE GRIP. THE BACKING IS SLIGHTLY ROUNDED, INSIDE FLAT GROOVES ON THE INSIDE AND EDGES OF THE GRIP. THE BACKING IS OF SINEW THREAD RESEMBLING THE ARCTIC TYPE, WHICH CONSISTS PARTLY OF THE SINGLE CABLE FROM THE KNOCK PART WAY DOWN THE LIMBS AND BETWEEN THESE POINTS A DOUBLE CABLE EFFECTED BY ADDING A CORD OF MANY STRANDS BY MEANS OF HALF-HITCHES. THE BACHING IS FURTHER-MORE HELD DOWN BY WRAPPINGS OF SINEW TWISTED AROUND THE CABLE AND BOW. THE TWO PARTS OF THE CABLE ARE WOUND UP OR TWISTED IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS AND KEPT FROM UNTWISTING BY MEANS OF A WRAPPING OF SPRUCE ROOT. BETWEEN THE CABLE AND THE GRIP THERE IS A LINING OF REINDEER HIDE. THE OCCURRENCE OF THE TWO CABLES ON THE YUKON SPECIMEN IS ACCOUNTED FOR BY MURDOCK FROM THE FACT THAT THE MALEMUTE ESKIMO OF NORTON SOUND CARRY ON TRAFFIC BETWEEN THE SOUTHERN AND THE ARCTIC ESKIMO. ILLUS. IN SMITHSONIAN REPT 1884, P1. VII, FIG. 16, P. 316 ALSO IN SR, 1893, P1. 71, FIGS. 16, 17; P. 679."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Aug 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E8822-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow