It would be very interesting to know if the the outside pocket was an original idea or a modern invention...
What bow are you waiting for, Jos?? Is it the Crimean Tartar horn bow from Lukas Novotny?!
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The external pockets on Turkish and Persian quivers start appearing around 1400 in paintings and many surviving quivers have them. In paintings, they are usually shown with normal arrows in them. Abriş arrows (flu-flus) were practice arrows and would not be carried in a war or hunting quiver. Sometimes unfletched arrows with heavy points are shown in the outside pocket with more normal arrows. These are amaji arrows. They were used in sport for qighaj shooting (shooting at a target on the ground at full gallop) and in battle for short range armour penetration.
Originally Mongol open quivers are shown with a square window cut in the outside face of the quiver and arrows are sometimes thrust through the opening. In experimental tests, I found this made it easier to pull out selected arrows without looking at the quiver. Later the pocket appeared. It served the same purpose but more efficiently. In the 17th century in China under the Qing, three slits were cut in the outer face of the quiver to hold three special arrows.
In Tibet and Qajar Persia, two openings were made in the outside face of some quivers to hold two special arrows. Slits in the outside face of the quiver are often combined with pockets in Iran. In these quivers, the unflecthed amaji arrows are kept in a special hole high up towards the front edge of the quiver.
The external pockets on Turkish and Persian quivers start appearing around 1400 in paintings and many surviving quivers have them. In paintings, they are usually shown with normal arrows in them. Abriş arrows (flu-flus) were practice arrows and would not be carried in a war or hunting quiver. Sometimes unfletched arrows with heavy points are shown in the outside pocket with more normal arrows. These are amaji arrows. They were used in sport for qighaj shooting (shooting at a target on the ground at full gallop) and in battle for short range armour penetration.
Originally Mongol open quivers are shown with a square window cut in the outside face of the quiver and arrows are sometimes thrust through the opening. In experimental tests, I found this made it easier to pull out selected arrows without looking at the quiver. Later the pocket appeared. It served the same purpose but more efficiently. In the 17th century in China under the Qing, three slits were cut in the outer face of the quiver to hold three special arrows.
In Tibet and Qajar Persia, two openings were made in the outside face of some quivers to hold two special arrows. Slits in the outside face of the quiver are often combined with pockets in Iran. In these quivers, the unflecthed amaji arrows are kept in a special hole high up towards the front edge of the quiver.
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