Identifier:
1997.20.7
Description:
Recurve bow made from a single piece of wood. The bow is strung with gazelle gut.;Traditionally used for hunting by the Maasai people of southern Sudan and Kenya.;Collected by Heywood Walker Weldon, the donor's father, in 1962-1963 while teaching at the Khartoum Technical Institute, Sudan, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Date:
circa 1962
Materials:
Wood, Gazelle Gut
Dimensions:
45.5" h 6" w 1" d
Current Location Status:
In Storage
Source:
In Memory Of Heywood Walker Weldon
Related Entities:
Maasai Ethnic Group (creator)
Trestrail, Beth (donor)
