Bow

Ski Pole

2003-43-114

From: Siberia | Amur River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 2003-43-114
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Siberia | Amur River
Culture Area Siberia
Section American
Materials Wood | Hide | Vegetable Fiber
Technique Carved | Bent | Strung | Lashed
Description

Long carved wooden bow strung with vegetable fiber twine; a circle of bentwood is lashed with hide strips to the base so the bow may double as a ski pole.

Length 141 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1899.1.114 - Other Number | 420/85 - Other Number | 74-1-116 - Other Number

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