Keenan,
Here are the words and sourcs references:
North American Bows, Arrows, And Quivers, Smithsoian Report of 1893, Otis Tufton Mason; page9 para: 9 through 11.......
" Coville says that the Panamint Indians of Death's Valley, California,make their bows from the desert juniper (Juniperus californica utahen ). The Indian prefers a piece of wood from the trunk or a large limb of a tree that has died and seasoned while standing. In these desert mountains moist rot of dead wood never occurs. The bow rarely exceeds three feet in length and is strengthened by gluingto the back a covering composed of strips of deer sinew laid on lengthwise.The string is of twisted hemp.++
These Panimint belong to the Shoshonean stock, spread out over the Great Interior Basin, and all the tribes use the sinew lined bow, with transverse wrappings of shredded sinew. (Plate LXI, fig.4.) *
The bow of the Chemehuevis (Shoshonean) is characteristic of the stock to which they belong, being of hard wood common in the region, elegently backed with sinew and bound with shredded sinew, ornamented also at the end by the skin or rattle of the rattlesnake.** The type belongs to the stock everywhere.
++] Am. Anthrop., Washington, 1892, vol. v,p. 360
* ] This illustration, bow #4, shows a thin bow with highly crowned back, and flattened belly
**] Whipple, etc., Pac.r.r. Rep., vol. III, p 32, pl.41, bow and quiver.
Furthermore page 10 of Otis Mason's Report, para.3 "........The Athapascan sinew veneered bow is found strictly West of the Rockies, the slender variety in the Basin and British Columbia, the flat variety on the Pacific Slope. The Navajo also have adopted this type of sinew-lined bow."
The bow that Otis Mason drew is analagos to an English long bow in section but only backwards crowned back and flat belly. Hope that helps you some.
rich