plains antler bow Hidatsa

[tibor]

plains antler bow Hidatsa 40 inch long 45 # @ 23 "made of deer antlers and deer sinew

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[BowEd]

Sweeet.Some nice character to those limbs.Nice touch with the beadwork also.That was a pretty good sized deer.Sinew or rawhide string???I see your into brain tanning too.

[Parnell]

Fascinating, really good looking bow!  I think I recall seeing that example in the Encyclopedia of Native American bows?  Very well done.

[bownarra]

Pretty cool bow Nicely made and decorated.
Do you plan on making a wooden cored hornbow some time?

[Greg Hertel]

Really nice!

[boomhowzer]

How did you splice the deer antlers together?

[bownarra]

They are normally done with a simple lap splice and sometimes with a rivet to prevent slippage when gluing.

[WhistlingBadger]

Really great looking bow.  How does it shoot?

[organic_archer]

Really cool recreation. Love everything about it!

[boomhowzer]

The antlers must have been straightened somehow and scraped or sanded flat? Is there a good book or other resource on antler bows. This thing is beautiful and I am so curious about how to make one.

[tibor]

Sweeet.Some nice character to those limbs.Nice touch with the beadwork also.That was a pretty good sized deer.Sinew or rawhide string???I see your into brain tanning too.

thank you, bowstring is a Dacron b50 ... yes, sometimes I do brain tanning

[tibor]

Fascinating, really good looking bow!  I think I recall seeing that example in the Encyclopedia of Native American bows?  Very well done.

Thank you, I saw a similar bow in the British Museum

[tibor]

Pretty cool bow Nicely made and decorated.
Do you plan on making a wooden cored hornbow some time?

thank you, i don't plan to do bow horn - wood - sinew, i'm most interested in native american bow and horn bow and you were just horn and sinew