Primitive bows: Source texts about the bows and archer vol. 1

by Saxton T. Pope, John Murdoch, Hermann Meyer

The book Primitive bows, Source texts about the bows and archery, includes the most valuable source texts on archery of the native inhabitants of North and South America. The authors of these works are eminent anthropologists living in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The descriptions and analyzes they present are very valuable in terms of cognition because they relate to real bows that were used for hunting and fighting.The book consists of 2 volumes.Volume 1 contains the following T. Pope, Yahi archery;John Murdoch, A study of the Eskimo bows in the U.S. National Museum;Hermann Meyer, Bows and arrows in Central Brazil.Volume 2 contains the following S. Morse, Ancient and Modern Methods of Arrow-Release;Edward S. Morse, Additional Notes on Arrow Release;Henry Balfour, On the Structure and Affinities of the Composite Bow.Most of these texts are first developed electronically and available in the Kindle format.

116 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 13, 2020

About the author

Saxton Temple Pope was an American doctor, teacher, author and outdoorsman. He is most famous as the father of modern bow hunting, and for his close relationship with Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe and the last known American Indian to be raised largely isolated from Western culture. He continued bowhunting until his death in 1926 from pneumonia.