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Language: Ainu
Language: Ainu

Bow

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The single-curved arched body has an irregular oval cross-section. cross-section. At one end a hole was drilled to tie the bowstring, at the other end there is a thorn-like At the other end there is a thorn-like taper for slipping over and hooking the string. The sinew is missing.

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ainu
Object type
bows (weapons)
Dimensions
1350 x 23 x 62 mm
Material/Technique
Wood; fibre, vegetable;
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 43662
Other number(s)
RJM 1953/10 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    19th century
    where
    Japan
    Asia -> East Asia -> Japan
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Asia
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Not clarified
    who
    Frau Kloebe (null)

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