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Aeta Negrito palm wood bow
Here is a quick post and some pics of a Aeta Negrito Palm wood bow still in use in the forest.
The bow is a flat bow made from black palm wood and the string is thick twisted bark from the water vine. the arrows shown here are made from young bamboo and the heads are steel. I was told these 3 arrow heads were used for everything from fishing to hunting deer or wild pig.
If you enlarge the picture of the Boy(Rafeal) showing the fletchings you can see that they are chicken feathers and bound in place with adhesive tape, plumbers sealer tape and thread of some type. This fletchin style is identical to the type used by the cherokee indians of th south eastern USA, I admire the clever use of available materials.
we were going to take more pics of this bow but had a difficult time with our cameras due to the rain and wet conditions. I hope you can get an idea of what it looks like.
take care,
tomahawk
The bow is made of the hardened part of a palm tree, be it a coconut, a royal palm. We call this in the local dialect as "bahe" and is almost unbreakable yet flexible.
ReplyDeleteyes, the Aeta pointed the special palm out to me but i cannot remember the name.
ReplyDeletethanks for the comment.
tomahawk
hi...was planning to get a set of bow and arrows, but have no idea where to get them. I intend to use this for my farm, i think bow and arrows would be handy rather than having something that explodes like firearms and ammos. If you can help me as to where to get them, i'd greatly appreciate it. And any idea as well as to how much....hope its not that expensive.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
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