The dominant style of Southeastern bow was the usual Eastern Woodlands style: a bend-through-the handle flatbow ranging from an average of about four and a half to six feet long. Depending on the wood, it was usually around an inch to an inch and a half wide from the center to past the midlimbs, tapering to wide-ish nocks ranging from 5/8" to an inch wide. The nocks/tips were usually diamond-shaped or rounded. Black locust was the preferred wood with most tribes that could get it, but other woods were also used, such as mulberry, hickory, ash, sassafras, eastern red cedar, elm, and others (in the western gulf coast region, osage was occasionally used). There was the occasional stiff-handled wide flatbow, but most of them seem to have been of the dominant D-bow type. Strings were usually of bear gut, rawhide, or sinew, occasionally of plant fiber.
