Bow, made from wood, no string attached. [ASh [OPS move] 8/8/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Bow, made from wood, no string attached. [ASh [OPS move] 8/8/2017]
Long description: Bow, made from dark brown coloured wood. The bow is rectangular in section and tapers towards the ends. There are small, cylindrical projections attached to the tips of the bow, which has been shouldered. No string found attached. [ASh [OPS move] 8/8/2017]
Geographical reference: Vanuatu
Oceania > Melanesia > Vanuatu; Erromango
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1878
Date collected: By 1878
Acquisition information: Transferred: 13/02/1886
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Notched
Dimensions: Width: max 22 mm, Depth: max 28 mm, Length: max 1281 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.1493.2 Other numbers: 357 359 61
Research and responses: * There is a note in the Ramsden collectors volume stating 'Retrospective numbers written in pencil down left hand column June 1975 E.S.G. Collated with A.M. but considerable problems encountered. All Ramsden seem to be in A.M.' Note that this exercise may have been the source of the confusion that occurred during Elizabeth Sandford Gunn's work on the Ashmolean collection with regard to numbers. In some instances, these numbers SEEM to have been used to number the objects (wrongly). [AP 15/7/99]

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