Collection Highlights
Four Portraits of North American Indians; verso: sketch of brave riding a horse and shooting a bow and arrow
1859
1941.1209
Oil on gray marbleized prepared heavy textured paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bar shot
Object name
Bar shot
Date
1775-1776
Medium
Iron
Dimensions
Overall: 11 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. ( 29.8 x 8.9 cm )
Description
Iron bar shot; two half circles connected by rectangular iron bars with sliding circular collars.
Credit Line
Gift of Dorothy C. Barck
Object Number
1954.137
Gallery Label
According to accession records, this bar shot was excavated by Reginald P. Bolton, Oscar T. Barck, and others, probably at a British Revolutionary War military camp in Washington Heights, Manhattan, or in an American camp in the Hudson Highlands of New York. The sliding bars on this bar shot enabled it to expand when fired from a cannon.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
