Sujet
Bow made from Osage Orangewood a rare, and thus valuable, straight grained timber ideally suited to bow making
Légende
Bow made from Osage Orangewood a rare, and thus valuable, straight grained timber ideally suited to bow making, With a beadwork handgrip and a twisted sinew bowstring. Such bows were reserved for buffalo hunting and for carrying in parades, inferior bows being used at all other times. USA. Plains Indian, Crow.
Info+
Werner Forman Archive/ Norman Bancroft-Hunt Collection, London
Crédit
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman
Notre référence
UMG12A33_156
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
20,5Mo (538,7Ko) / 40,1cm x 12,8cm / 4740 x 1512 (300dpi)