Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper label adhered to the front of the bow reads: 'R. 87.57 b. TARTAR BOW ?CHINA. William H. Mallock, Esq. 1887.'
Event Date
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
Two bows and a bundle of seven iron-tipped arrows
Event Date 1887
Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (CMS Context)
The arrows are actually painted with the numbers E 1887.57 A-G; Exhibited: Arrows displayed in Mongolian case, Maudslay Hall, CUMAA, from 1990
Event Date 17/5/1994
Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (CMS Context)
The annual report notes 'Two Tartar bows and a bundle of iron-tipped arrows'. The donor's name, William Henry Mallock Esq. of Brampford Speke, Exeter.
(Bio) Brother of Mary Margaret Mallock and second cousin to Baroness Izzy von Hugel
Event Date 4/11/2015
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
[In reference to C-I] Square sectioned iron arrowheads (rusty), ?tanged, with painted sections above head and beneath feathered flights. Feathers and pigment in poor condition.
Event Date 9/11/2015
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
Composite archer's bow, which bends inwards towards the holder. The bow is made from wood, with animal horn on the front of the bow, birch bark on the back of the bow and animal sinew around the grip. The bow is notched at the ends, which would allow the string to be attached [Not present]. There is remnants of red and white paint decorating the tips of the bow.
Event Date 1/4/2019
Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (Amendments / updates)
Eliza von Hugel's cousin William Hurrell Mallock (1849- 1923), the novelist & economics writer, lived at 5 St Mary’s Passage, Cambridge. He was the son of her maternal aunt Margaret Froude (1810- 1883) who married 1884 the Rev. William Mallock, Rector of Cheriton Bishop (1810- 1886). W.H. Mallock died without issue, leaving his estate to sister Mary Margaret Mallock, who also gifted material to the museum. Some of her gifts (1887.74) can be connected to the Leverian Museum Collection from Widdicombe House, Devon, via lilustrations by Sarah Stone when exhibited in the Leverian Museum in the 1890s.

Margaret Froude's sister-in-law, Catherine Henrietta Elizabeth Froude (nee Holdsworth) (b.?1878) was the daughter of Arthur Howe Holdsworth of Widdicombe House, Devon, who purchased material at the Leverian sale through John Rowe, (a clergyman from Bristol). Rowe purchased on behalf of his brother-in-law Richard Hall Clarke, of Bridwell House, Uffculme, Devon and Clarke’s son-in-law, Arthur Howe Holdsworth of Widdicombe House.

This may be the Persian bow purchased by Rowe at the sale of the Levan Museum, No. 2402, noted by Kaeppler: 2011, p. 238) and the '5 oriental arrows' purchased by Rowe after the sale on 16th Jan 1807, noted by Kaeppler: 2011, p. 245, Lot No. 2337)

Event Date 24/10/2020
Author: rachel hand

Context (References)
Kaeppler, A. L, (2011). 'Holophusicon: The Leverian Museum An Eighteenth Century English Institution of Science,Curiosity, and Art' (Altenstadt, Germany: ZFK Publishers
Event Date 24/10/2020
Author: rachel hand