Primitive Archer

Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: riverrat on October 05, 2015, 11:57:33 pm

Title: books on Native American bows
Post by: riverrat on October 05, 2015, 11:57:33 pm

in the past i had lots of books. mostly by a guy named Jim Hamm. but there were others as well. one of my favorites was the encyclopidia of native american bows, arrows, and quivers of the eastern and midwestern U.S. or something to that effect. hell of a title there! anyways just reordered that one. i gave away my last copy a while back. i also just ordered a book called north american bows arrows and quivers by Otis T Mason. thinking on getting Bows Arrows and Quivers of the American Frontier JOHN BALDWIN. anyone have any other refference books they know of like this? i like studying the drawings ,sketches, ect of the real things.building replicas stuff like that. love to get my hands on vol 2 of that encyclopidia book but its out of production now.thanks Tony

Title: Re: books on Native American bows
Post by: JoJoDapyro on October 06, 2015, 12:25:52 pm

there is the south west edition of the Encyclopedia. I can't find it for a price i'm willing to pay though.

Title: Re: books on Native American bows
Post by: AndrewS on October 06, 2015, 01:11:43 pm

what's about the book by Laubin?
American Indian Archery is the title,  I think.

Title: Re: books on Native American bows
Post by: gifford on October 06, 2015, 04:09:53 pm

Riverrat - The Otis Mason book was originally printed over a hundred years ago so it is an excellent reference. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found the Ballwin book excellent as well since it had some color pictures of bows and many of the bows, arrows, and quivers are photographed instead of line drawings. Both are great resources.

Title: Re: books on Native American bows
Post by: JackCrafty on October 06, 2015, 08:14:18 pm

All good books mentioned.  The problem, however, is that there are never any draw lengths or full draw profiles.  And you can't always find the draw length by looking at the arrows.  Many of us attempt draw lengths that are about half of the bow length, when we build these bows for ourselves, but that is wishful thinking, IMO.

Saxton Pope conducted some tests on actual Amerindian bows back in the day.  Those tests yielded various results and at least one of the bows broke.  But those tests are the best info we have other than experiments by people on this forum (and others).

---http://www.archerylibrary.com/books/pope/hunting-with-bow-and-arrow/chapter04_1.html

Title: Re: books on Native American bows
Post by: JackCrafty on October 06, 2015, 08:21:23 pm

Oh yeah, check out this internet library:

---http://www.archerylibrary.com/books/

Title: Re: books on Native American bows
Post by: bubby on October 07, 2015, 03:34:15 pm

Riverrat i have the laubin book and enjoy it

Title: Re: books on Native American bows
Post by: riverrat on October 07, 2015, 07:13:30 pm

thanks everyone. ill be looking into a few others as well. Tony