Trigger
Snare
2003-43-297B
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-297B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Vegetable Fiber | Iron |
| Technique | Carved | Forged |
| Description | Snare or section of automatic cross bow consisting of arrow carved of wood, notched at narrow end and fitted at wide end with barbed iron head; head is attached to string which runs a quarter the length of the shaft and through a hole in the shaft; the length of string continues through a small carved wooden trigger device and is tied through a hole in a flat length of carved wood (bow-like device). |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.297a/c - Other Number |
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