Eastern Woodland bow pictures library

[alwayslookin]

Awesome thread half eye. Really interesting I would like to start making some replicas someday.

[Blaflair2]

We should put this in the archives

[Hans H]

many thanks for posting that, I got lot of ideas, thanks.

[wizardgoat]

Thanks for taking the time to post these rich.
Keep em coming!

[Zedd]

I can see a sad indian sitting in the moss holding his bow, a slow tear coming from one eye. That's what I would do.

[Aaron H]

These are awesome, thanks Rich

[half eye]

got these resized

[half eye]

some others

[Springbuck]

  This should be a sticky...

  Where are you getting them?  They look a lot like the pics from the North American Ethnographic Collection Archives, but most I have never seen.


If anybody wants to, you can go to    anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databases/north_public/north_public.html


Googling North American Ethnographic Collection will get you there, too.  You can search for bows by region.  The Arctic region has some fascinating styles.

[paulsemp]

very cool rich thanks for sharing. pretty hard to come about pictures like this from searching the internet. I vote for sticky topic also. if you got time keep the pictures coming I'm sure I'm not the only one enjoying these

[half eye]

Springbuck, Paul I'll go back through my list of data bases and list them for all of you. As you can imagine, they come from a lot of different museums.

[Badly Bent]

Great stuff Rich. Already see several in there I'm now gonna want to try to make, just when I was considering taking a little break from bow building along comes some inspiration.

[DC]

Rich, do you know if they are all original or are there some reproductions in there? Some of them look new. Amazing pictures. Amazing bows!

[CrazyHorse1969]

Awesome! Thanks for all of the images. A lot of these bows were probably made by people living right around where I live today.

[loefflerchuck]

Thanks Rich, your title is a little deceptive with the bow pictures from California and the great basin thrown in there. I have a lot of these images saved on my computer too. I wish more museums had online data bases.