Bow
AF273
From: Mozambique (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | AF273 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mozambique (uncertain) |
Section | African |
Materials | Palm Wood | Fiber |
Description | Stave of palmwood pointed at one end, and with small shouldered offset at the other, over which the string is looped in a "doubled string slipknot" (Leakey, Jo. Anthr. Inst. LVI (1926), p. 267), this end of the string being carried down along the stave and wound round it near the middle. |
Length | 163 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Sarah (William D.) Frishmuth, 1900 |
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