Hey Fellas,
Got down to some serious building here while it still snowing. Built three bows and three cased sets. One of the Ojibwe is a western pattern, one is an eastern/ riverine pattern, and the black bear set is Odawa styled. I made two bows for the eastern cased set a 45" elm self bow in the Shawnee pattern (49# @ 23"), and an eastern Ojibwe single side scalloped bow of 52" (61# @ 27") it's hickory backed elm and the little Odawa (Ottawa) bow is a self ash bow 45" ntn (51# @ 23") will get the bow pics posted tomorrow if the snow lets off some......
The western Ojibwe cased set is buckskin, with pony beads. has the bow case and quiver seperate, and has a "kit" bag. the coyote head forms a rain flap for the arrows but also has an opening at the bottom edge so you can case longer arrows, (like in the pic. the fringe is cut from the original piece and are not sewed on.
The Eastern Ojibwe, is sewed up "hair-in", and has beaver fur cuffs. again all three pieces are seperate. The tassells are strips of beaver fur and are whipped and tied on with buckskin. The bow case, quiver and bag are all "hair-in".
The Odawa set is made from a black bear, obviously hair out. The bears head forms a rain cover for the normal arrows, but will accommodate longer ones at the bottom of the head. This set is also 3 piece. the robins-egg blue straps were dyed up because the color was common to the Ojibwe and Odawa, the beads are pony beads. There is a bearskin holder at the bottom of one bandolier strap as you can see. This bear skin and hatchett came from wildman and I think they all look real good and wanted to share the pics
Hope ya like 'em and I'll post the braced, unbraced and full draw pics tomorrow.
rich
