Bow, made from wood with a broken rattan string. [ASh [OPS move] 4/8/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Bow, made from wood with a broken rattan string. [ASh [OPS move] 4/8/2017]
Long description: Bow, consisting of a wooden shaft of circular section, slightly bent, tapering towards both ends, one end pointed, the other blunt. Both ends have been thinned down, so as to create a sudden ‘shoulder’ which stops the loop of the string from slipping back. The staff, has been bound round with strips of split rattan and of lizard skin. The string is made from a piece of split rattan, round which loops of elaborately plaited leather thongs are tied. The string is broken in the middle. [ASh [OPS move] 4/8/2017]
Geographical reference: Ghana
Africa > Western Africa > Ghana
Cultural groups: Tallensi
Person: Field collector Meyer Fortes; PRM source Meyer Fortes
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1941
Date collected: By 1941
Acquisition information: Donated: 1941
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Rattan Fibre Plant, Material Lizard Skin Reptile, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Split
Dimensions: Width: max 69 mm, Depth: max 29 mm, Length: max 1195 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1941.12.84