In a report on this bow, Steve Brown Associate Curator for Native American Art at the Seattle Art Museum (which will accompany its sale) refers to it as "certainly one of the finest wooden bows to have been made on the Northwest Coast." The use of yew which does not grow in the northern areas indicates that it comes from the British Columbia Coast. Brown dates it to the first half of the 19th century. Delicate fluting similar to that on the back of this bow appears on an early Nootka wood ladle formerly in the de Menil collection (Holm and Reid, pp. 74, 5 no. 19).