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Goose feathers were used as quill pens, the best being the primary feathers of the left-wing, whose "curvature bent away from the eyes of right-handed writers". [31] The feathers also served to fletch arrows. [30] In ethology, the greylag goose was the subject of Konrad Lorenz's pioneering studies of imprinting behaviour. [32]
In English archery, the male feather, from a cock, is used on the outside of the arrow, while the other two stabilizing feathers are from a female, or hen. Traditional archery lore about feather curvature is that a right handed archer should shoot a right winged feather and right handed helical, and a left handed archer should use the opposite.
Goose feathers are most commonly used; scarcer, more expensive swan feathers are used for larger lettering. [7] Depending on availability and strength of the feather, as well as quality and characteristic of the line wanted by the writer, other feathers used for quill-pen making include those from the crow, eagle, owl, turkey, and hawk too. [8]
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 ...
Print/export Download as PDF ... Goose and eider down ... Bird feathers have long been used for fletching arrows. Colorful feathers such as those belonging to ...
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Yanlingdao (雁翎刀) or "goose-feather sabre" is another term used at least since the Song dynasty, which is at times use interchangeably with yanmaodao. No period depictions of yanlingdao exist, so it remains unclear if this was an entirely different type of sabre, or just another name for the same type of sword.
Police officers in Boulder, Colorado, came to the rescue of a goose with an arrow through its head on March 16.The Boulder Police Department posted bodycam footage showing officers catching the ...