Bow And Arrows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: STRAIGHT, FLAT, BOW STAINED BLACK ON FRONT WITH A PAINTED AND INCISED GROOVE ON THE MIDDLE OF THE INSIDE. THE ENDS ARE NOTCHED FOR THE STRING, (WHICH IS ATTACHED) & WOUND WITH VEGETABLE FIBER. EIGHT ARROWS MADE OF REED WITH INCISED AND BLACKENED DESIGNS ALONG FULL LENGTH. ARROWS HAVE HARDENED AND SHARPENED WOODEN POINTS, SOME WITH ADDITIONAL BARBS AND STING RAY POINTS, INSERTED AND LASHED INTO THE REED SHAFTS WHICH ARE DEVOID OF FLETCHING. THE BOW HAS "N. ZEALAND" WRITTEN ON IT, SINCE IT WAS COLLECTED IN NEW ZEALAND.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "1 BOW AND 11 ARROWS."
label: Notes
content: Catalog card indicates that there are 11 arrows, but in 2009 (and earlier?) only 10 arrows, along with the bow, were found with this number.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 11
place: label: Place
content: Bougainville Island, North Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Melanesian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3860-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow / Arrow
physicalDescription: label: Length - Bow
content: 206 cm
label: Length - Arrows, Avg
content: 141 cm