4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria
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◉ A RARE INUIT CABLE-BACKED BOW, 19TH CENTURY
with rectangular profile, reflexed limbs consisting of spliced whalebone joined at the grip and ears using ferrous pins, backed with sinew cables wrapped around each nock and secured with further cables, a leather band at the grip and leather between the cables and the limbs, reinforcements at the joint between the ears and the limbs using ferrous sheet metal, a string-keeping hole bored in one nock, 111.0 cm
Another example of a cable-backed bow is preserved in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter (room 13, number 47). Dated to before 1826, this bow however is made with wood instead of bone. For a discussion of the various types of Inuit bow and drawings of further examples, see Murdoch 1890.
Sold for £2,200
with rectangular profile, reflexed limbs consisting of spliced whalebone joined at the grip and ears using ferrous pins, backed with sinew cables wrapped around each nock and secured with further cables, a leather band at the grip and leather between the cables and the limbs, reinforcements at the joint between the ears and the limbs using ferrous sheet metal, a string-keeping hole bored in one nock, 111.0 cm
Another example of a cable-backed bow is preserved in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter (room 13, number 47). Dated to before 1826, this bow however is made with wood instead of bone. For a discussion of the various types of Inuit bow and drawings of further examples, see Murdoch 1890.
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 4th Dec, 2024
Auction Location: London, UK
Including:
THE BILL TERRY COLLECTION, PART II: NON WESTERN ARCHERY
THE ROY ELVIS COLLECTION OF INDIAN ARMS & ARMOUR, PART V
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF CHARLES SOMERS COCKS, 3RD EARL SOMERS (1819-83), EASTNOR CASTLE, THENCE BY DESCENT
AN IMPORTANT ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
THE ROBERT E. BROOKER JR. COLLECTION OF RARE ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOUR, PART ONE: THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
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