FMNH 8140.1

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | 16-25 | Country Venezuela | People Guaivo and Pearoa Indians | Locality Vichada River | Name Bows (over) | Collection R. Welles Jr. | Where Placed Hall 16 | Notes [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | No 8140 1-3 | 105 | Acc. 35 [BACK] 1 & 2 exh 1918 | 3 not exh 1918 | These two different kinds of bow displat the variation in type between two tribes. One is shorter, of quadrilateral cross- section, is bound with a decorative binding of bark and strung with an extra long bowstring of twisted hide. The other is longer and more slender with one flat and one convex side and is strung with a fiber cord. | Cat. # 8140
Catalog Number: 8140.1
Description: bow
Materials: wood, bark, hide, fiber
Cultural Attribution: Piaroa
Accession Number: [35] R. Welles Jr. (Gift)
Accession Year: 1893
Other Numbers: 105
City/Town: Vichada River
Collector/Source: Roger Welles Jr., World's Columbian Exposition - Department of Ethnology - Department of Ethnology
EMu IRN: 1441776
GUID: 78d3161b-5211-41b9-aa20-7259e875cc94

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