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Title: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: TRiggs on July 26, 2020, 12:23:15 pm

I seen this article and figured you guys would be interested
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8879-200724-mississippi-choctaw-bow

Title: Re: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: sleek on July 26, 2020, 01:30:29 pm

I read that a few days ago and was fascinated by it. I immediately reached out to the Choctaw nation to get access to it soon as its able to be handled and my goal is to make as exact replica of it.  Im going to give that replica to the Choctaw nation.

Title: Re: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: TimBo on July 26, 2020, 01:32:36 pm

Wow, that's cool - thanks for the link!  (I get pretty excited when I find an arrowhead...seeing a bow sticking out of the mud would probably induce a heart attack!)

Title: Re: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: Hamish on July 26, 2020, 05:43:42 pm

Does anyone know what sort of wood it is made from?

Title: Re: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: bentstick54 on July 26, 2020, 09:17:20 pm

Very exciting find. Thanks for sharing.

Title: Re: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: WhistlingBadger on July 26, 2020, 09:58:46 pm

Wow, that is quite a find. Keep us posted, Sleek!

Title: Re: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: loefflerchuck on July 26, 2020, 10:28:14 pm

Thank you for this! I would also like to know the wood. Hickory??

Title: Re: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: sleek on July 26, 2020, 10:43:55 pm

Considering its location,  probably osage.

Title: Re: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: Hawkdancer on July 26, 2020, 11:19:19 pm

That is a real neat find!  Hopefully, the specs are released, including the wood.  Hickory, Osage, possibly sassafras or persimmon in that area.  I would be interested in making a replica!
Hawkdancer

Title: Re: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: TRiggs on July 27, 2020, 12:41:55 am

It didn't  say what it was made of but I'll bet it was Osage Orange seeing how well its held together

Title: Re: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: sleek on July 27, 2020, 04:17:07 am

Its only 42 inches long. Not very wide. Gadda be osage, or a child's bow, or something ceremonial.

Title: Re: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: PatM on July 27, 2020, 06:24:16 am

Have they conclusively determined it's actually a Choctaw bow?

Title: Re: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: Pat B on July 27, 2020, 06:30:49 am

I don't know if osage was growing in Mississippi 300 to 500 years ago.

Title: Re: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: osage outlaw on July 27, 2020, 07:37:06 pm

Quote from: Pat B on July 27, 2020, 06:30:49 am

I don't know if osage was growing in Mississippi 300 to 500 years ago.

Maybe traded wood?

Title: Re: Choctaw Bow Found
Post by: sleek on July 27, 2020, 07:44:33 pm

Quote from: Pat B on July 27, 2020, 06:30:49 am

I don't know if osage was growing in Mississippi 300 to 500 years ago.

Wasn't osage spread by the mastodon and wooly mammoth? I'm pretty certain they had it down there.