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Collection: Warnock
Item Number: WC8808037
Category: Bows-Quivers
Region: Plains
Tribe: Plains - upper Missouri River
Period: 1825-1850 - circa 1830-1840
Materials: Elk antler; sinew; red wool trade cloth; porcupine quills.
Description: Curved horn bow backed with sinew; sinew bow string; wrapped sinew at each end and center; decoration of red wool cloth wrapped with quillwork. Fixed to the bow is a small blue collector's stamp, partially torn, with the numbers _3.
Condition: Very good
Dimensions: Length 26.25 inches 66.5 cm.
Provenance:
From a private museum in Switzerland founded in the 1830s or 1840s
Alexander Gallery
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.
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