CanadaBone bow from Canada, Americas. Part of the Pitt Rivers Museum Founding Collection. Given to the Museum in 1884.

This is a relatively simple composite bow, constructed from four walrus ivory pieces, reinforced at the belly with a number of caribou antler pieces, and finally pierced and bound together with cordage of caribou sinew.

Although it was at one time thought that a purely bone, ivory and sinew bow emerged from a lack of wood in the Arctic, it has emerged that this makes for a far superior hunting weapon to many wooden self bows. This example would have been used by the Eastern Inuit of Baffin Island for hunting caribou and, in particular, fatty and nutritious seals.