Bow

Museum number:

1-19867

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010019867

Accession number:

Acc.477 and Acc.477I

Object count:

1

Description:

Catgut backed hickory bow with string. Red cloth grip, sinew around both ends of bow,

Donor:

Ishi

Collection place:

San Francisco County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; San Francisco; San Francisco

Culture or time period:

Yana

Maker or artist:

Ishi

Collector:

Ishi

Collection date:

1915

Materials:

Catgut (bow back), Sinew (material), Textile materials (grip), and Wood (plant material) (bow)

Taxon:

Carya

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Bows (weapons)

Function:

1.1 Hunting and Fishing

Accession date:

1915 and 1916

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Photo: 15-6017, added in pen, "15-17260; 15-20153". Published: AAE XIII 3 pl. 23 fig. 1. Backing is catgut per Saxton Pope.

Loans:

S1962-1963 #26: California State Indian Museum (November 15, 1962–October 7, 1964), S1966-1967 #9: Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (October 10, 1966–December 17, 1966), S1967-1968 #80: California League of American Indians (January 26, 1968–January 29, 1968), S1969-1970 #64: California State University, Chico (December 31, 1969–August 31, 1970), S1970-1971 #25: Oakland Museum of California (September 25, 1970–April 9, 1971), S1983-1984 #29: The George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library (UC Berkeley) (November 10, 1983–November 11, 1983), and S2018-2019 #4: Bundeskunsthalle (August 27, 2019–January 16, 2020)

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