BULLETIN 



OF THE 



EJSSZEIX IITSTITUTB. 



Vol. 26. Salem: July — December, 1894. Nos. 7-12, 



ON THE SO-CALLED BOW-PULLER OF 

 ANTIQUITY. 



BY EDWARD S. MORSE. 



In many of the European Museums one finds in the De- 

 partment of Classical Archseology a curious bronze object 

 included with the Etruscan, Roman, and Greek collections. 

 This object usually bears the name of Bogenspanner, 

 Buespander, Tira Archi, Tira del Are, etc., aecording to 

 the nationality of the Museum. 



An examination of this object convinced me that it was 

 not a bow-stretcher, or arrow-pull. A further study per- 

 suaded me that it had nothing whatever to do with the 

 archer's bow. Realizing that a step would be taken if it 

 could be demonstrated that it was not an archer's imple- 

 ment I began the aecumulation of material in the form of 

 sketches and other memoranda of these objeets from the 

 private collections of C. J. Longman, Esq., of London, 

 Prof. Henry W. Haynes, and of the lamented William 



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