Self-action Bow And Arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Museum Of Academy Of Sciences Leningrad
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "A heavy plain bow with thick twisted horsehair string. The bar for pulling the string back is separate. One arrow with double iron points. "For catching foxes, sables, and other animals."
label: Notes
content: Identified as a bow trap, by Zinaida Ivanova, Arctic Institute of Culture and Arts, Yakutsk, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia Federation, 11-7-2012.
label: Notes
content: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Self-action bow. Aja. 19th century. Wood, hide, metal, horsehair. Carving, bending, stretching. L.: 114.This is hunter's wooden bow with two arrows and a thick kiris leather bowstring. There are notches at the tips of a kibitiarch through which the bowstring is pulled through and tied up. A wooden kentik peg-trigger and a kholo instrument for measuring the height of the peg-trigger are attached using a small hair rope to an arrow with a metal awl-shaped head and notches on the other side. The other arrow with a metal fork-shaped head is wrapped with leather ribbons at the base of the head. A bow with such arrows is used when hunting foxes, wild deer and even large prey.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Aldan & Lena Rivers Area, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yakut (Sakha)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 103666
label: USNM Number
content: E352246-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow / Arrow
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 114 cm