Buckeye, Here are the pics ...the last one shows how I go about retrieving an arrow directly from the case, just slide the bottom forward and the case mouth drops down to where ya can grab an arrow.
Medicinewheel, I have seen very few surviving examples of (Michigan) Ojibwe cases and those were in really poor condition.....so I would have to say "in the style of" would be appropriate. Also there is the problem of locale. Ojibwe and Odawa are considered eastern woodland Algonquian Natives but they had many and varied groups that actually ranged from modern day Montreal westward to Sascatchawan and the Dakotas and from the sub-artic southward to southern Michigan, Ohio, Illinois etc. There would have been many distinictly different types and styles, I imgaine, with a group that diverse.
One other thing is that nearly every bow case and quiver that I've seen or read about, were worn on the left shoulder so mine is "backwards". Arrows could still be accessed with the right hand (with the bow removed) by sliding the quiver forward .....which would put the arrows head forward and they could be withdrawn rearward. I do not know for a fact how the Native Americans deployed their cases. But from all I know about them they should all be over the left shoulder.
rich
