Subject: gaucho cowboy
Culture: Argentine
Setting: South American pampas 19thc
Object: boleadoras bolas
Museum of the Americas *
"BOLA 'BOLEADORA' A hunting weapon composed of three stone balls
covered with rawhide suspended on a 32" braided leather rope.
Native people and gauchos used the boleadora to hunt guanacos ...,
typical animals of the Pampas and Patagonia regions. Argentina" ...
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