Bow
2003-32-159
From: New Hebrides (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-159 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Hebrides (uncertain) |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Dark brown wood, slightly bent, with one long notch or hollow running the length of the concave face. Bowstring of twisted bast (?) still tied to one end. At other end, where string has come off, carved projection for securing it. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. |
| Length | 142 cm |
| Width | 3.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1995.X.16529 - Other Number | 16879 - Other Number |
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