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Bows were not the same throughout the Americas and different tribes made bows in their own traditional way.

Let's take three examples to illustrate the point: the Algonkin (Algonquin) of Canada, the Crows of Montana and the Wai Wai of Guyana and northern Brazil:

  • The Algonquin tribe made their bows of hickory wood, from 52 to 60 inches long and only about 1 inch wide, often with faces carved at the tips of the bow limbs. They hunted and fought on foot. Strings were made of plant fibre (probably nettle or"Indian hemp").
  • The Crows of the Great plains made much shorter bows for hunting and warfare on horseback. Some were of wood such as ash, about 46 inches long and fitted with a string of twisted sinew. Other bows were painstakingly made from sections of mountain sheep horn or elk horn glued to a wood core and wrapped with sinew.
  • The Wai Wai hunters and warriors made their bows of local hardwoods, some up to 12 feet long with arrows 6 feet long, again for use only on foot. Even a small bow could be 7 to 9 feet long. Scientific study of Archery shows that most of the potential power in such a set is lost because human arms can not draw the bow to its full potential, but nevertheless this is the traditional method among these people. Curare poison was used on arrow points.
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