Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
May 30, 1794
Primary Source Reference:
Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 30 May 1794
Additional Source Text:
"A powerful bow. From Columbia's river in lat. 46, N. and arrows from the same place."
Notes:
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Harvard University, acquired a number of Indigenous artifacts in 1899 from Moses Kimball's Boston Museum. Kimball and P. T. Barnum jointly purchased many of the Peale collections when they were sold about 1849. The bow in the Peale Museum my have looked like the one pictured here (Object number 99-12-10/52951).
