Bow
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Simple bow; grip wrapped in bark; sinew strung."
label: Notes
content: Catalogue card calls this Salish, but older Smithsonian tag with object has it as Clallam (mispelled as Clamlam). This bow bears a variety of original numbers. One number marked on the bow itself in old ink/handwriting (and subsequently struck through) is 1142; bow is also marked "Bow. Puget Sound" in old ink/handwriting. It may be speculated that this bow may be bow Catalogue No. E1142, exchanged out of the collections to Anton Heitmuller in 1915. Heitmuller and Evans were both Washington, D.C. collectors during the same time period, and other Smithsonian pieces that went to Heitmuller are documented in the Evans collection. If the bow is indeed the former E1142, that object was collected by James G. Swan from the Makah of Neah Bay, Washingon, and entered the Smithsonian collections in 1866. Note that early Swan accession records from this era, including the one E1142 is part of, reference Puget Sound, though that has been corrected to Neah Bay in the cataloguing.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Neah Bay (not certain), Puget Sound (not certain) / Neah Bay (not certain), Washington, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Salish
label: Culture
content: Makah (?)
label: Culture
content: Clallam (Klallam, S'Klallam) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E361124-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow