Author Topic: Cree Bow pictures anyone? (Read 13620 times)

half eye · « **Reply #15 on:** July 23, 2011, 10:33:49 pm »

tried to send this photo to you for a week now. The new site wont let this Peabody museum photo post....I'm trying one more time to get the pic size increased.
rich

Cameroo · « **Reply #16 on:** July 23, 2011, 11:59:23 pm »

Thanks Rich. Looks like the limbs are pretty wide and thin, and fairly short (under 50 inches). I'm guessing this is a horse bow, probably sinew backed?

EDIT: maybe it's longer than 50. How large would those squares on the ruler be?

half eye · « **Reply #17 on:** July 24, 2011, 12:25:05 am »

The bow stats were given as:
sinew backed wood
vegetable fiber string, hide grip, designs are described as pigment
95cm X 3 cm X 2cm
collected in 1890's, and is Eastern Main Cree
housed at the Peabody Museum (Harvard)

it appears to be what the Eastern Woodland bows described as "slightly double curved" looked like

Cameroo · « **Reply #18 on:** July 24, 2011, 12:38:03 am »

Yikes, that's only 37.4 inches! Pretty short for me

I like that design on the back, looks kinda like deer tracks.

half eye · « **Reply #19 on:** July 24, 2011, 12:58:53 pm »

Found a couple more, and they say where they were collected.

1. Cree, MacKenzie Borderlands.....collected in "The valley of the Sarkatchewan" sinew backed wood.....dimensions 108.2cm x 5cm x 3.4cm

2. Cree, Northern Cree, collected at Missanabie River, Ontario in 1908, dimensions 116.5 x 3.5 x 2
listed as a "boys" bow. (It is not mentioned how they came to that conclusion)

3. Northern Ojibwe bow so you can see the distinct similarities. These 2 bands were closly related to the point of having a distinct dialect of algongquian known as Oji-Cree.

4. a clse up of a Western Cree bowstring of sinew.
hope it helps out

crooketarrow · « **Reply #20 on:** July 24, 2011, 06:51:00 pm »

I don't know if this helps but I read a few books on IROQIOUS and there Territory's went into CANDA and I've read where they've ran raiding party into CREE territory. These were the eastern CREE They ranged though most of CANDA. Later on they were one of the six nations of the IROQIOUS NATION. So it's a good chance there bows were close to being the same. But like I said there was a lot of western expansion.