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  2. Eskimo archery - Wikipedia

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    Eskimo hunter and polar bear slain with bow and arrow The cable backed bow, showing the bow (a) bearing the tensioned cable (b) along the face of it, attached by bindings (c). Finally, the bow strung with the main string (d). Spruce wood is nearly inelastic in compression, but usually the best available material for the belly of the bow.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Antler - Wikipedia

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    The Netsilik, an Inuit group, made bows and arrows using antler, reinforced with strands of animal tendons braided to form a cable-backed bow. [50] Several Indigenous American tribes also used antler to make bows, gluing tendons to the bow instead of tying them as cables. An antler bow, made in the early 19th century, is on display at Brooklyn ...

  5. Cable-backed bow - Wikipedia

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    The cable backed bow, showing the bow (a) bearing the tensioned cable (b) along the face of it, attached by bindings (c). Finally, the bow strung with the main string (d). Several Inuit cable-backed bows. The shapes of the top four are an interesting mix of deflex, reflex, and decurve. A cable-backed bow is a bow reinforced with a cable on the ...

  6. Indigenous peoples of Florida - Wikipedia

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    A few underwater sites in Florida have yielded Paleoindian artifacts of ivory, bone, antler, shell, and wood. A type of artifact found in rivers in northern Florida is the ivory foreshaft. One end of a foreshaft was attached to a projectile point with pitch and sinew. The other end was pointed, and pressure-fitted into a wood shaft.

  7. 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.

  8. Bow and arrow - Wikipedia

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    The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows). Humans used bows and arrows for hunting and aggression long before recorded history , and the practice was common to many prehistoric cultures.

  9. Arrowhead - Wikipedia

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    Arrowheads are attached to arrow shafts to be shot from a bow; similar types of projectile points may be attached to a spear and "thrown" by means of an atlatl (spear thrower). The arrowhead or projectile point is the primary functional part of the arrow, and plays the largest role in determining its purpose.