Bow And Arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. A. B. Campbell
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "(SIOUAN STOCK). QUIVER, OF WHITE COW SKIN ORNAMENTED WITH CUT FRINGES. BOW, OF HARD WOOD, PLAIN. ARROWS, WITH SIMPLE SHAFTS AND GROOVES, THREE FEATHERS, STRIPES IN RED AND BLUE; HEADS, OF IRON, TANGED AND FASTENED WITH SINEW. 9 FOUND. INVENTORIED 1978. YANKTON BOW (TAH-KAI-ETAH-ZUPAH) AND TEN ARROWS (WAH-HEUZK-PAH) THE BOW IS INLAID WITH SINEWS ON THE BACK AND BOUND AROUND THE ENDS. IT IS PAINTED TO PREVENT THE ABSORPTION OF MOISTURE. A BOW THUS MADE IS FIVE TIMES THE VALUE OF THE ORDINARY BOW. PRESENTED BY ASST. SURGEON A. B. CAMPBELL, USA. (AMM NOTES, A 43)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Nov 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 11
place: label: Place
content: Plains Northern, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Yankton (Ihanktonwan) Dakota
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8385-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow / Arrow