bow
- Museum number
- Oc1951,03.10
- Description
-
Register 1951
Palm wood bow with rattan string. One end is bound with vegetable fibre string and a tuft of cassowary feathers are attached.
- Dimensions
-
Length: 76 inches
- Curator's comments
- Register 1951
Palm wood bows.
Utakwa-Mimika River District, Dutch New Guinea.
Obtained on the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition, 1910. Obtained by donor from C.B. Kloss.
See A.F.R Wollaston, "Pygmies and Papuans," C.G. Rawling, "The Land of the New Guinea Pygmies", Haddon & Layard, "Ethnographical Collections, Utakwa River, New Guinea."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1951
- Acquisition notes
- Collected by British Ornithologists' Union expedition.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1951,03.10