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Bow Tools: Marlinspike And Sinew Twisters

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. FROM CARD: "BOW TOOLS. 1 SPIKE, 2 ...
Los Angeles Times

In China, a traditional bow maker finds his calling in ‘noble art’

reporting from BEIJING — Even after half a century, Yang Fuxi can still remember the pungent smell of his grandfather’s bow and arrow workshop in central Beijing. “There was the odor of glue and bull ...
PBS

The Egyptian Bow

Water buffalo tusks, fish bladders, and animal sinew all went into the making of the ancient Egyptian composite bow. While the materials may seem primitive, this powerful weapon was not so different ...
China Digital Times

Chinese Bows Were Superior, Too

The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report addresses the mystery of the bow’s long co-existence with firearms in China, compared with its early obsolescence in Europe: A physicist at Australia’s ...