Composite bow with long belly of wood and back of horn.The hand grip is covered with cork and leather, and it has curved wooden tips with a nock and a wooden support at either end for holding the bowstring. The bow is painted with red and black lacquer, decorated with birch-bark in geometric design, and covered with sinew in glue. Bowstring is of bound and knotted hemp cord with a loop on either side. It is broken into two halves
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