Question on Blackfoot bows

[Traxx]

Barrage is absolutely correct.The Blackfoot range was in Northern Montana and in to Canada.The Blackfoot Rez is in Northern Montana,along the Alberta border and is right next to Glacier National Park.The Blackfeet,were a band of Sioux.Im not shure why Blackfoot Idaho is Named that,but the Native people on the Rez there in Fort Hall Idaho are Shoshone/Bannock.I have Good friends from both those Rezervations.

[DanaM]

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,9380.0.html

I knew I remembered seeing one on here before Haven't seen steve on the board in a long time wonder what became of him?

[Michael C.]

Holy crap that thing is bending crazy, I don't see how that string is staying on. I must not have read something skimming through it.

[OldBow]

It were Blackfoot Indians that camped with Meriweather Lewis and a few of his men in the Marias River area NW of Great Falls, Montana. (William Clark had left the group, following their westbound trail back to the Yellowstone River.) Their goal was to steal whatever they could, including the state of the art flintlock rifles that Lewis had. In the ensueing skirmish, two Indians were killed, the only Indians killed during the two year Corps of Discovery, although some close calls occurred elsewhere.
Blackfoot Indians used serviceberry and mountain maple for bows.  Lewis broke up some the Indians' bows and arrows and burned them in their campfire before skedattling out of there.

A canyon near my home is Hellgate Canyon where Blackfeet attacked other tribes crossing over the Divide to hunt bison.

[DanaM]

Don while looking up info I read that account, it was very interesting

[El Destructo]

               That little Bow of Steves....still scares the CRAP out of Me....look at the String Angle on that Thang........

[DanaM]

               That little Bow of Steves....still scares the CRAP out of Me....look at the String Angle on that Thang........

Looks to be 90 degrees, max draw for sure, but he is using a modern grip, Wouldn't the Blackfeet have used more of a pinch grip and a shorter draw?

[uwe]

Try to find Murray Small Legs. He lives in Potsdam near Berlin. He had bee working at Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump and comes from Canada. I know him quite well. He has an Blackfeet Ashbow. WWW.Murray Small Legs Presentations.de ?
Regards Uwe

[DanaM]

Thanks Uwe

[billy]

Hey Dana,

I'm pretty sure the Blackfoot lived in close proximity to the Sioux.   3 Sioux bows will be illustrated in the Treasures of the Smithsonian series, and I think the blackfoot bows were probably pretty similar.

[DanaM]

Thanks billy been waiting on them articles