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Title: great plains indian bow and arrows
Post by: Hummer3T on July 22, 2012, 08:28:00 PM

sorry about the quality of the pics, check out the blunt and broadhead and nock end of the arrows.  This is a genuine great plains indian setup.

 (http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j435/Tloran/2012-07-18085611.jpg)
 (http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j435/Tloran/2012-07-18085617.jpg)
 (http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j435/Tloran/2012-07-18085626.jpg)


I think I need to make some of those blunts.

This is a true self bow, great example of compression and expansion wood use in a bow.

Title: Re: great plains indian bow and arrows
Post by: Sam McMichael on July 22, 2012, 08:53:00 PM

Neat! Where were these pics taken?

Title: Re: great plains indian bow and arrows
Post by: Rob W. on July 22, 2012, 08:57:00 PM

Cool pics. What was the blunt tip made of?


Rob

Title: Re: great plains indian bow and arrows
Post by: Hummer3T on July 22, 2012, 08:58:00 PM

Museum at Maple Creek, Saskatchewan.  I beleive these would be from the Blackfoot or Dakota Souis?

Title: Re: great plains indian bow and arrows
Post by: Hummer3T on July 22, 2012, 09:00:00 PM

Rob, looked to be build right out of the same peice as the shaft, with maybe soaked in pine tar?

Title: Re: great plains indian bow and arrows
Post by: Roger Norris on July 22, 2012, 09:54:00 PM

Is that blunt wrapped with something? Very cool.

Title: Re: great plains indian bow and arrows
Post by: Hummer3T on July 22, 2012, 10:38:00 PM

I think wrapped in lead???

Title: Re: great plains indian bow and arrows
Post by: Kamm1004 on July 23, 2012, 12:22:00 AM

Very cool! i've always bee fascinated with the plains indians bows and arrows, especially horseback shooting.
Any idea what the bows made out of? Looks to be ash and that was a common wood choice for many plains tribes. Some also traded for osage but i don't think thats osage.

Title: Re: great plains indian bow and arrows
Post by: Tim Finley on July 23, 2012, 10:19:00 AM

I have a 1800's Sioux Indian bow I bought at a local auction sale . The old guy was in his 80's and his dad had bought it from some indian when they pioneered in North Dakota . Its quite different from this one and mine is made from ash, has notches on only one end and a peg at the top . Not many survived...Tim

Title: Re: great plains indian bow and arrows
Post by: Hummer3T on July 23, 2012, 10:26:00 AM

Not sure , looks maybe like alder or hawthorne, if I had to guess.

Title: Re: great plains indian bow and arrows
Post by: 1Longbow on July 23, 2012, 10:31:00 PM

My wife and I took the camper to Cody Wy. last year. If you want to see the finest  collection of plains indian bows and gear .Do yourself a favor and go to the Cody museum,just an unreal collection.