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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: snag on May 14, 2011, 03:55:00 PM
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I got this old Shakespeare backquiver yesterday. It's in great condition, soft pliable leather, no corrosion on the metal zipper, knive sheath and tool sheath, double straps.
(http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u31/snag23/IMG_0255.jpg)
BUT, when I opened the side compartment this thing was in it......
(http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u31/snag23/IMG_0257.jpg)
It's made of leather and has the brass hooks (like boot hooks) and is laced up with a strip of leather. It's about the diameter of your thumb...? Please end my mental misery and tell me what this thing is for...this ought to be good!
An armguard for a very small person.... :dunno:
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:dunno:
Wish I could be more help. I could always come up with some wise crack description, but I will refrain this time.
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Could be a sleave for a single broad head. You tie the leather strings to your upper limb and then you can place an arrow with broadhead into the sleave while you are walking / stalking through the brush. Less movement to get your arrow onto the string this way than getting it from a quiver.
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Someone went a long way to make this thing. It is very well made and thought out. Can't imagine someone would put out this effort and not have a reason for it...?
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looks like a pony tail holder that a woman will wear on the back of a bike...But now they have snapps..so it looks old...Just my 2cents.
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I have a friend and when we and his wife do Harley trips [ she rides her own 110 c.i. Springer] she uses something similar on her pony tail to keep it together in the wind....I wonder if some lady did something similar to keep her long hair out of the way while shooting? :dunno:
Gene
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I string keeper for when the bow is unstrung?
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I'm going to have to say it's a pony tail holder.
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You might have it Gene! and TW! Wow, that is one heck of a ponytail holder!
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I vote a tip protector and/or string keeper.
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Originally posted by bawana bowman:
I vote a tip protector and/or string keeper.
x3
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Not sure I agree with tip protector...the weight of that on one limb, I think would throw the limbs out of sync?? :confused:
Gene
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Traditional archery ponytail holder. Why not? My lifes got a similar one for when she's on the bike.
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arm guard for tiny archer
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May wish to consider submitting your inquiry to the Fred Bear museum.
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try posting in the trad history/collecting forum. those guys would know better than anyone imo. don
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I'd say string keeper.
Nice score on the quiver btw.
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I can't imagine why a string keeper would have to be that beefy. Or how any ponytailed guy or gal would go to that much trouble. I'm completely stumped. Now I'm never going to get to sleep tonight. Thanks a lot.
BTW, something easier... what are those leather laces in the D-rings on the bottom of the quiver for?
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could it be for when you are not using your bow, you fasten it to one of the limbs and the thongs are used to secure it to the quiver? don
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Not too large for a tip protector for an all wood bow?
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The mystery goes on.... :banghead:
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Its a pony tail wrap... No question... Made one for a girl I was dating way back when but it had some feathes on the ends of the ties... and laced as compared to this one
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Ponytail holder, I have one just like it, bought at a Native American festival, laces and boot hooks as well
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Yup. I just Googled "leather pony tail wrap" in images and I am convinced. Will sleep soundly tonight.
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My wife is a Traditional Shawl dancer in native American Pow Wow`s here in Michigan (when we can get her to them). She has several of those.
She says the item is made and used to hold BRAIDED hair, similar to a pony tail. The difference is the hair itself is braided to form a more decorated look, and is often braided to lay flat. The women use wraps EXACTLY like that to hold their braided hair when they are dressed in their regalia for participating in the different dances at the pow wow`s.
She says that one is VERY nice.
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I learned something today, and you have an excellent quiver.
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It is for pony tail!
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Originally posted by Mike Vines:
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Oh man, now I HAVE to grow a ponytail....nawwwww. :saywhat:
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nicest one of it's kind i have ever seen.
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Perhaps a leather cover for the back of a file, to hold it easily?
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Originally posted by snag:
Oh man, now I HAVE to grow a ponytail....nawwwww. :saywhat:
DO IT!!! :jumper:
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Fancy ponytail holder. Nice quiver I got one just like it. I love it!
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Small arm guard?
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Don't anyone tell Snag.
"It's an actual ponytail holder for a horse".
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So some dang hippie owned that quiver from the sound of things
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It's an "Arrow Keeper". When you had a mix of different (say broad-head & field point) tipped arrows in your quiver you'd use this to keep them separate.
A long time ago, a gal looked at one & thought it would work for hair too.
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May be a bit small for a pony tail wrap. How about a wrap for a spare bowstring. Would seem more likely thing to find in a quiver than a pony tail thingy???
JW
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Mom bought me a pair of them in the seventies for my braids. I still have them...
or is one missing? Better check.
Killdeer
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Kille !! No pictures whats up? Your teaseing us. :laughing: :laughing: