Toy bow
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
1937
Materials
Gut, Wood
Measurements
260 mm (Length)45 mm (W)
Place of origin
Africa
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303790
Summary
One of three toy bows made from wood wth gut strings. Lord Egerton's number 515A. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall. Possibly from the Congo.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in 1937. Bought at an Ovambo Native Exhibition at Windhoek together with the arrows.