Bow
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Yanomamö (Yanomamo)
- Collector
- Mahekodo-teri Mission, Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, 1950-
- Previous owner
- David McMeans, Non-Indian
- Sarah McMeans, Non-Indian
- Donor
- David McMeans, Non-Indian
- Sarah McMeans, Non-Indian
- Object Name
- Bow
- Media/Materials
- Bamboo, cordage
- Techniques
- Carved, notched, braided
- Dimensions
- 187.2 x 2.5 cm
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
- Place
- Boco Mavaca (village near the Silesian Mission at Mahekodo-teri/Majicodoteri); Río Orinoco; Amazonas State, Guayana Region; Venezuela
- Date created
- circa 1955
- Collection History
- Collected by members of the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco at their mission at Mahekodo-teri/Majicodoteri on the Orinoco after 1950; given to David and Sarah McMeans by the Salesian Sisters in 1963 or 1964; donated to NMAI by Mr. And Mrs. McMeans in 2011.
- Catalog Number
- 26/8506
- Barcode
- 268506.000
- See related items
- Yanomamö (Yanomamo)
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement