Bow

Date created
circa 1880
Culture/People
Wintu
Collector
Loren W. Green (L.W. Green), Non-Indian
Previous owner
Loren W. Green (L.W. Green), Non-Indian
U.S. National Museum (United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History)
Collection History
Collected by Loren W. Green (superintendent of the U.S. Fish Commission's Trout Ponds, in Baird, California), probably between 1880 and 1885; donated to the U.S. National Museum (later the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History) in 1885; acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the US National Museum in 1908.
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Place
McCloud River; Shasta County, Siskiyou County; California; USA
See related items
Wintu
Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
Data Source
National Museum of the American Indian
Catalog Number
2/450
Barcode
020450.000
Object Type
Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
Object Name
Bow
Media/Materials
Wood, hide, fur, sinew, paint
Techniques
Painted, carved, wrapped
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws605d1c16d-8140-40fe-b6ac-eccf94913c10
Record ID
NMAI_21724