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  2. Eskimo archery - Wikipedia

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    Varieties of cable-backed bow have been made by non-Inuit cultures. Tlingit and Haida people have also made such bows. [5] A distinct variant of cable-backed bow is the Penobscot bow or Wabenaki bow, invented by Frank Loring (Chief Big Thunder) about 1900. [6] It consists of a small bow attached by cables on the back of a larger main bow.

  3. Bow and arrow - Wikipedia

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    Drawing a bow, from a 1908 archery manual. A bow consists of a semi-rigid but elastic arc with a high-tensile bowstring joining the ends of the two limbs of the bow.An arrow is a projectile with a pointed tip and a long shaft with stabilizer fins towards the back, with a narrow notch at the very end to contact the bowstring.

  4. Inuit weapons - Wikipedia

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    Inuit weapons were primarily hunting tools which served a dual purpose as weapons, whether against other Inuit groups or against their traditional enemies, the Chipewyan, Tłı̨chǫ (Dogrib), Dene, and Cree. [1] Six Inuit bows displayed at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver

  5. Fletching - Wikipedia

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    Cherokee Bows and Arrows: How to Make and Shoot Primitive Bows and Arrows. Abstract: The author reveals in step-by-step detail the Cherokee secrets for making bows and arrows from materials found in nature and for shooting them by ancient Cherokee methods. Massey, Jim (1992). "Self Arrows" in The Traditional Bowyer's Bible Volume One, (Jim Hamm ...

  6. Arrow - Wikipedia

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    Traditional target arrow (top) and replica medieval arrow (bottom) Modern arrow with plastic fletchings and nock An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile launched by a bow.A typical arrow usually consists of a long, stiff, straight shaft with a weighty (and usually sharp and pointed) arrowhead attached to the front end, multiple fin-like stabilizers called fletchings mounted near the rear, and ...

  7. Arctic small tool tradition - Wikipedia

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    Typically tool types include scrapers, burins and side and end blades used in composite arrows or spears made of other materials, such as bone or antler. Many researchers also assume that it was Arctic Small Tool populations who first introduced the bow and arrow to the Arctic, that eventually became the Eskimo archery material culture.

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