- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- wood; sinew
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0043
- Description
- Long, rough bow made from branch of tree split in half lengthwise with bark, poplar? left on outside. Notches at either end hold twisted sinew which is tightly wrapped and knotted at one notch and looped at other.
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- Title
- Hunting Bow
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- wood; sinew
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 3.8 x 155.6 cm
- Description
- Long, rough bow made from branch of tree split in half lengthwise with bark, poplar? left on outside. Notches at either end hold twisted sinew which is tightly wrapped and knotted at one notch and looped at other.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0043
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