Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown, but said to have been collected in 1853; formerly in the collection of the Vassar Brothers Institute (an educational society in Poughkeepsie, New York); acquired by MAI through an exchange with the Vassar Brothers Institute in 1927.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Pueblo
- Previous owner
- Vassar Brothers Institute
- Object Name
- Bow
- Media/Materials
- Wood, hide, sinew
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
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