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Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: half eye on March 18, 2011, 01:01:08 pm

Title: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: half eye on March 18, 2011, 01:01:08 pm

This is a Ojibwe bow case and arrow case. The bandolier is ressed buffalo hide, the knife sheath, bow case and arrow case are tanned caribo hide. The decoration tufts are dyed deer hair. Need to stain and finish the handle (curly maple) of the knife and wait for the finish to dry on the actual bow....but it's basically done.

Made this cased set as practice for the black bear one I'm making for my ottawa (Odawa) bow and arrows set. Got a real nice bear hide from wildman, and didn't want to screw it up....hope ya like.
rich

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: Pappy on March 18, 2011, 01:14:58 pm

Thats sweet,very nice looking set. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: ken75 on March 20, 2011, 12:52:34 am

damn thats nice wish you drew me in the swap

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: Pat B on March 20, 2011, 01:24:31 am

Very nice work Rich.  8)

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: beetlebailey1977 on March 20, 2011, 01:25:42 am

that is very nice Rich....looks great to me.  Good to practice.

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: jonathan creason on March 20, 2011, 10:55:52 am

Awesome job, Rich.

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: gstoneberg on March 20, 2011, 11:23:54 am

Wish my practice looked like that...  Very nice.

George

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: half eye on March 20, 2011, 11:33:06 am

thanks for the nice comments, much appreciated.
rich

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: hillbilly61 on March 20, 2011, 09:25:27 pm

Quote from: ken75 on March 20, 2011, 12:52:34 am

damn thats nice wish you drew me in the swap

 :o I'm with ken

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: Buckeye Guy on March 21, 2011, 06:02:51 pm

Rich
Thats awsome !!
Can you get a pic of it on you so I can see how it works ?
I'm wanting to do one for myself !!

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: half eye on March 21, 2011, 11:02:50 pm

Buckeye,
      sure, be glad to.....get some tomorrow when the suns up....
rich

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: medicinewheel on March 22, 2011, 05:24:22 am

Great work!
Is that a replica or rather "in the style of"?

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: half eye on March 22, 2011, 11:55:21 am

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

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: ErictheViking on March 22, 2011, 02:05:26 pm

Beautiful work Rich,  looks like you should be on the back of a pony hunting. You just need to grow your hair out a bit. ;D

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: Buckeye Guy on March 22, 2011, 05:59:55 pm

Thanks Rich !
Looks like just the ticket for me to keep my arrows out of this Hawbrush I hunt in !!
OK thats one more project to try to do good thing I didn't sign up for the bow exchange
Life is just to short for all I want to do !!

Title: Re: Eastern Woodland bow case and arrow case
Post by: JackCrafty on March 22, 2011, 08:17:07 pm

 8)