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Collection: Nagy
Item Number: NC0046
Category: Bow
Region: Northwest Coast
Tribe: Kwakwaka'wakw
Period: 1800-1825
Materials: Yew wood; sinew
Description: Southern Northwest Coast bow with sinew twisted bowstring. Marked with collector numbers H1514 (Hooper), A76187a (unknown) and #276 (unknown). The #276 tag is probably the oldest. See Steven C. Brown's note below.
Dimensions: Length 31 inches; 78.75 cm.
Provenance:
W.O. Oldman Collection, #6916
James Hooper Collection, #1514
Adelaide deMenil Collection
Alan Silberberg, Littleton, Massachusetts
References:
cf, King, J.C.H., Artificial Curiosities from the Northwest Coast of America; Native American Artifacts in the British Museum collected on the Third Voyage of Captain James Cook and acquired through Sir Joseph Banks, British Museum Publications Limited, London, 1981, pp 86, 87.
Sotheby's Auction Catalogue, Sotheby's, New York, New York, June 4, 1997, Lot #207
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