- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ivory bow for mouth-drill, perforated at both ends and tied with leather thong. Bow with incised animal decoration. [FC 04/08/2008]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1881
- Date collected
- ?Prior to 1881
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Carved, Process Perforated, Process Incised, Process Tied
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 365 x 20 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.33.31 PR no.: 32/ 12395
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