Peruvian Kaxinawá palm bark bow

Title

Peruvian Kaxinawá palm bark bow

Alternative Title

Kanu Keneya (painted on or designed bow)

Subject

bow, Kaxinawá, Kensinger, Peru

Description

This palm bark covered bow is wrapped in pink, black, and white string with a protective covering of brown corn husks.

Notes on accession card:
"covered with corn husks
which will remain in place til bow has been used in fertility rites, at which time wrapping is removed. After rites bow is used without covering until decoration frays, at which time it is removed and bow is used
same as item 177"

length- roughly 168 cm

Relation

Comparable to items 1966-1-176 and 1966-1-177.

Creator

Kaxinawá, Rio Curanja, Idiududu

Date Created

c. 20th century

Contributor

Kenneth Kensinger

Type

hunting tool, ritual

Publisher

Temple University Anthropology Lab

Identifier

1966-1-175

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Citation

Kaxinawá, Rio Curanja, Idiududu, “Peruvian Kaxinawá palm bark bow,” Anthropology Laboratory and Museum, accessed December 27, 2024, http://gamma.library.temple.edu/anthropologylab/items/show/172.