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A sampling of archery equipment.
Please read "material notes".
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Tolowa replica test piece (see note at bottom of page); sinew
backed Yew with red ochre & charcoal pigments, rawhide
wrapped tips & braintanned buckskin handle. Original in
preface of "Earth Pigments & Paint of the California
Indians". See photo below for profile view.
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Southern Great Central Valley style; sinew backed Juniper;
smoked braintanned buckskin handle & recurves.
See photo below for profile view.
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Hupa style; sinew backed with braintanned buckskin handle
& red ochre, charcoal & clay pigments.
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Generic; sinew backed Yew with rawhide wrapped tips, red
ochre pigments, gopher snake skin & smoked braintanned
buckskin handle.
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Achomawi replica; sinew
backed Yew with rawhide wrapped
tips, red ochre pigments & smoked buckskin handle.
Illustration of original in
"The Traditional Bowyers Bible Vol 1", p176.
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Great Basin style; sinew backed Chokecherry with charcoal
pigment, rattlesnake skin & smoked buckskin handle.
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Replica of bow found in San Bernardino County cave; deflexed-recurved
Willow with charcoal pigments. See belly & description
of paints here.
Original in "Earth Pigments
& Paint of the California Indians", p168.
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Southern Great Central Valley style as shown above, 2nd
from top.
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Tolowa replica test piece as shown at top.
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Bow stings:
top two are two-ply sinew; to the left is four-ply Dogbane
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| Bow tips.
(click to enlarge) |
Bow bellies
with patina (see notes here): Hupa
top, San Bernardino bottom with pitch based paint on recurve
& wild cucumber seed & charcoal on belly. (click to
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Bow
handles; all smoked braintanned buckskin except Willow bark
bottom right. (click to enlarge) |
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Cane arrows with fire-hardened
greasewood foreshafts. From the top: blunt, stone, Klamath
style water-skipper for ducks, sharpened tip, sharpened
tip with barbs & bird. Bottom center: test piece (see
note at bottom of page) for Hupa replica bone point with
dogwood shaft. Original had black pigment rather than red
ochre. (click to enlarge)
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Deer skin quiver with twisted
two-ply cattail carrying strap & red ochre & charcoal
pigments. (click to enlarge)
NOTE:
A "test piece" is an implement made for the sole
purpose of practice with particular methods and/or shapes
before attempting to replicate a specific item. Several
test pieces are often made before desired results are achieved.
Subpar materials are sometimes used saving the best materials
for the final piece.
misc
implements •
presentations
& demos
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