Mongol Bow in Silk Road Museum, Seoul

[jack farrell]

JJ; Those are really nice pics of the Turkish war arrows. Your camera does a good job. Note that the color scheme is close to the Mongol ones in the SRM. This cresting color scheme is often seen in ancient Asian paintings.

The plates you are seeing in the ears of the Miran bows are horn plates. Andrew informs me that this would be the first example known of this technique. Isn't it fascinating how each new discovery opens up the typology of bows? Several additions will need to be made to the Miran article.

I will open a Birch tar thread to keep things organized.

[Bede]

Just for the comment on the shallowness of the nocks influencing their use with thumb draws: as long as there is cusp on the sides of the slot, you can generally use a thumb draw. Nocks with a slight swelling make this particularly easy.

After reading some archaeological reports, I think that the absence of sinew bindings on some of the arrows might be the result of rodent damage. This is not to suggest that all arrows without sinew in these burials had it chewed off. As Peter Dekker has pointed out, large diameter arrows with self nocks were often made without bindings because of the lower stress from the thicker strings used with them.

[mechwar]

Today, i was visite silkroad museum for skeching this bow.
but...
It removed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

[jsachers]

Oops ? Jack, you're right (of course ?), one of my pictures shows the two "Hunnic" bows.
This is the correct picture showing the Mongol bow.

[Stephen Selby]

There are six documented Mongol bows and several other possible ones known not well documented.

Jack, this post is really the answer to all those who ask what Mongol bows of the Empire Period were like. No relation to the modern Mongolian bows used in the Naadam, and also quite distinct from the Omnigorov bows with bone reinforcement at the tips and grip that crept into this discussion later.

S