bow
- Museum number
- Oc1841,0211.57
- Description
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Bow made of wood, string.
- Production date
- 19thC (early)
- Dimensions
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Length: 154 centimetres
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Width: 2.30 centimetres
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Depth: 1.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- B&M Extracts Register: "No information" for no.57. MS volume "Acquisitions, 1840-42, Ethnography" (Ethno.Dept. register archive), p."7.11" gives "Bow and string", no provenance other than "South Seas" (for overall collection"). Attached Ethnography Dept. tag gives "Matty I.".
British and Medieval Acquisitions, v.1 (1837-44); also British and Medieval Acquisitions, 1837-45 (no vol. number). British and Medieval Extracts (1757-1887), pp.32-36 (this has "No information" for no.57). Ethnography Dept. registration archive MS volume "Acquisitions, 1840-42, Ethnography", p.7.11.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1841
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1841,0211.57