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This exciting Eagle's View edition includes all you need to know to make powerful and attractive Native American bows with an easy-to-follow text together with numerous illustrations and photos. The reader is shown how to use both primitive and modern techniques of bow and arrow making.
The book explores in detail acquiring tools and woods; designing the bow to fit your purposes; how to cut the wood and shape it to your design; how to bring the bow to a perfect arc; methods for recurving and/or reflexing the bow for added speed; backing the bow with wood, rawhide, intestine or sinew; dozens of ideas and photos for finishing the bow; photos and instructions for applying a snakeskin back; making quivers and cases with hides, beads and more; arrowsmithing from natural or modern materials; making bow strings with techniques that are understandable to even the beginning bowyer; and shooting the way that Native Americans did years ago.
Written for the beginning craftsman with over 200 illustrations, photos, charts and diagrams, this book will be invaluable to anyone interested in traditional weapons of the American Indian, their material culture and/or early Americana.
119 illustrations; 116 photographs; 5 charts.
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- PublisherEagles View Pub Co
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0943604214
- ISBN 13 9780943604213
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages98
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ISBN 13: 9780943604213
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Making Indian Bows and Arrows. The Old Way
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Eagle's View Publishing June 1, 1978, Liberty, Utah, U.s.a., 1978
ISBN 10: 0943604214
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good+ Clean Trade Paperback. 8vo Slight shelf wear only. Clean 98 pp. NO writing. NOT a library copy A window into the Native American world of the Bow and hand made arrow. The history and how to make a bow and different tribal arrows. The book is written actually by a First Nation Bow and Arrow maker. Great photos. Great for learning to make arrows and bows. From harvesting arrow feathers to choosing wood for bows. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans. Seller Inventory # 016850
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ISBN 13: 9780943604213
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