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Bow

Object Number:65-10-172
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Cashinahua
Provenience: Peru
Rio Curanja
Culture Area: Amazonia
Section:American
Materials:Wood
Cotton
Cornhusk
Length: 159 cm
Width: 2.8 cm
Thickness: 1.5 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Kenneth M. Kensinger, 1965

Description

Same as 65-10-171; cord wrapping covers half bow, no bands for twisted pink and white, orange instead of pink with the black and white; other half covered by corn husk (cf. 65-10-168 and -169) bound on with strips of balsa bark. Used for game.

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