Pellet Bow W/Bowstring
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Jun 2005
label: Collection Date
content: 1960 to 1969
name: label: Collector
content: John T. Hitchcock
label: Donor Name
content: Catharine McClellan
notes: label: Notes
content: Bow made of bamboo. Flat, with round handle at the center wrapped with cotton thread. Detached bow string is a reed (or thin strip of bamboo?) with an opening in the middle to hold the pellet "ammunition" (catalog number E433343 is a set of these pellets).
label: Notes
content: Bamboo pellet bows are not used for hunting. It is mainly playthings for children. Brief mention of it in National Anthropological Archives, box 43 of the John Hitchcock Collection folder "Ethnographic Background - Banyan Hill and Monal" page 11. Cataloger's note: In the article, it is associated with Banyan Hill however it was labled as Bhuji Khola.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Jun 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Nepal, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Magar (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2032229
label: USNM Number
content: E433403-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow