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Collection: Nagy
Item Number: NC0048
Category: Bow
Region: Arctic
Tribe: Eskimo - Caribou Eskimo
Period: 1750-1775
Materials: Wood (cedar?); sinew
Description: Three piece wood bow tied together with braided sinew and backed with braided sinew. On the bow is written in ink, "Esquimaux Bow with arrows and bound with deer sinew. Presented to Dr. Gifford by George Holt, 1775".
Dimensions: Length 60.25 inches
Provenance:
George Holt, Hudson Bay Company, between 1768 and 1771
Dr. Andrew Gifford, England 1775
Baptist Academy, Bristol, England 1784
Linda Barnard Finer, England 1979
Alexander Gallery
John and Marva Warnock Collection
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