Bola | Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalBola
Sling stone
These stones, called bolas, were used as throwing weapons. They were used both in war and for hunting. Often several such stones were combined with cords to form a boleadora, which wrapped itself around the legs of the animals and brought them down.
- Data Provider
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Bola
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4 cm
Length: 5 cm - Material/Technique
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Meteorite
ground
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 119544
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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pre-Columbian
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Peru
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Change of physical control
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when
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1956
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- Provenance
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There is no
confirmed provenance for this object.
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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