- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- sinew; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.3004
- Description
- Handmade bow of peeled, bent wood with a carved notch at one end. A sinew bowstring is looped around the notch and wrapped around the opposite end.
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- Title
- Bow
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- sinew; wood
- Dimensions
- 3.6 x 113.0 cm
- Description
- Handmade bow of peeled, bent wood with a carved notch at one end. A sinew bowstring is looped around the notch and wrapped around the opposite end.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- crafts
- carving
- sports, archery
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.3004
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Projectile Point
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- bone
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.3002 a-g
- Description
- Seven very similar handcarved triangular arrowheads with short shafts. Five have notches on the shaft. One side of each arrowhead is slightly convex, and the opposite is flat with a hollowed area along the length of the shaft and almost to the tip.
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- Title
- Projectile Point
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- bone
- Dimensions
- 2.4 x 6.5 cm
- Description
- Seven very similar handcarved triangular arrowheads with short shafts. Five have notches on the shaft. One side of each arrowhead is slightly convex, and the opposite is flat with a hollowed area along the length of the shaft and almost to the tip.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- crafts
- carving
- sports, archery
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.3002 a-g
Images
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potentially offensive content.
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