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  2. Native American weaponry - Wikipedia

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    The bow is made of wood (attempts have been made at bone, but the bone has a low tensile strength and snaps easily when pressure is applied to the ends, "authentic bows" made of bone is a fairly common scam) string is made from either the dried, twisted, strung out, and twisted again intestines of animals, bundled horse hair, fibers from nettle ...

  3. Carya cordiformis - Wikipedia

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    Carya cordiformis, the bitternut hickory, [2] also called bitternut, yellowbud hickory, or swamp hickory, is a large hickory species native to the eastern United States and adjacent Canada. Notable for its unique sulphur-yellow buds, it is one of the most widespread hickories and is the northernmost species of pecan hickory ( Carya sect ...

  4. Flatbow - Wikipedia

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    Suitable and easily available timbers include elm (used in ancient Europe, as evidenced by bows pulled from European bogs), maple, sycamore, hazel, and ash. The flatbow design also lends itself to very dense, high strength woods such as hickory and especially osage orange (a wood favored by many Native American tribes for bow making).

  5. Indian arts and crafts laws - Wikipedia

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    Nebraska's American Indian Arts and Crafts Sales Act protects "American Indian craftpersons from false representation in the offerinq for sale, sale, trade, or purchase of authentic American Indian arts and crafts and natural and unnatural turquoise." The act defines an American Indian as any person who is of "at least one-quarter American ...

  6. Atsugewi - Wikipedia

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    Atsugewi manufactured bows were prized by the neighboring Klamath, Paiute, Modoc and Achomawi. Called dumidiyi, the bows were of a similar design to those made by the Yurok. The best dumidiyi were made of yew wood by the Atsuge. As fairly peaceable relations developed with Paiute groups by 1870, these yew bows became a common trade item. [11]

  7. Native American recreational activities - Wikipedia

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    One of the earliest known games played among Native Americans was archery. Indians would play this with the goal of hitting a target or an animal. Accounts of Indians playing this game date back to AD 250. [6] The Algonquian and Iroquoian tribes, located around present-day Michigan, would use locally found supplies to create their bows.

  8. Inuit weapons - Wikipedia

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    This article related to weaponry is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e This Alaska-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e This Greenland -related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e This Northwest Territories -related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  9. Apache fiddle - Wikipedia

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    One or sometimes two strings, often made of horse hair, are secured at both ends of the stalk, a bridge and nut added, and the string is played with a bow resined with pine pitch. [3] The string is touched with the fingers to change its note. The Smithsonian Institution holds an Apache fiddle collected in 1875. [4]

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