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curate picture of the bows and arrows as used by the red menwhen this land was being colonized. INDIAN BOWS Bows made and used by the Indians were very short incomparison to the English long bow; they were from 42inches to rarely ever longer than 48 inches. They were madefrom such woods as their region produced. In the East,hickory and ash were their choice; the Plains tribes usedosage orange; the mountain and desert tribes used juniperand mesquite; the western tribes used various woods com-mon to that region which included some yew. As a rule, a sapling or a limb was split and allowed toseason after which it was fashioned into a bow with widethin limbs. Some extra wood was left in the region of thehandle but not enough to give the bow rigidity at that point;they all seemed to bend in the handle section which madethem sluggish in cast and a harsh bow to shoot. On the otherhand, if their bows had been rigid in the handle region itwould have been necessary to make the bows longer. |
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