Barkquiver

[AndrewS]

I have made a bark quiver from elmbark wrapped with cherrybark.
I ' m inspired by quivers of the Ainu people of Hokkaido.

First I made a tube of a piece of elm bark. Put in a wooden plug as bottom and fixed it with wooden nails from thoothpicks.
Then I wrapped around a long stripe of cherrybark that I made from stripes of cherrybark that are put together with an overlapping splice ( in an old PA mag Mr. Grayson wrote an article about the quivers of the Ainu and he showed this connection of the barkstripes).
For carrying I have add a piece of dogwood.

The only glue I use is at the beginning of the wrapping and at the end of the wrapping...

Hope you enjoy!

P.S. have cleaned the bark with fine steelwool and finally oiled it with tungoil.

[White Falcon]

Very nice looking and you have a talent.

[AndrewS]

Thanks for your comment

[AndrewS]

A weaved woolen strap is attached for carrying. I carry the quiver in the same way a plains style quiver is used normally.... under the left arm.

[AndrewS]

Here are some pics from an old book and from a museum of the original Ainu quivers

[medicinewheel]

This is one really nice quiver! What is the lacing? Rawhide?

[AndrewS]

@ medicinewheel

The lacing to fix the dogwood branch is chair weave cane.
The lacing around the opening are small stripes of cherrybark.