Vines as bow tying material?

[pete]

Vines as bow tying medium ?


The natives here use some kind of vines in the forest to be use as string for their bow and use this also for tying the shaft and almost all type of tying procedure to the bow. . .
Okay my question is : are vines being use is consider unique ?
What i understand of you guys mostly used are sinew isnt it? ? but are you aware there is such material to be used.?

Secondly, some type of wax substance taken in beehives is being used to rub on the tying and waterproofing for the vines , , so its only fire that it cant tolerate.
Now is this wax gotten fom beehives. Is also being practice by you guys or its usually fish glues you are all familiar of?

Xxxx

pete

[Stephen Selby]

Peter,

The Philippine tribal bows belong to a group of bows which are also found in Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua Niugini, Taiwan, Sri Lanka and the Hawaiian islands. All those bows use vines as a tying material.

The vines are used for the string, to secure the string to the ends of the bow, and to decorate the bow stave and grip.

S.

[Ray Cover]

I know its not Asian but some Native American groups also used the bark of vines to spin/braid bow strings out of.

I don't remember which vol. but one of the Traditional Bowyer's Bible books shows how to do this.

Ray

[Gianrico]

I remember that also Bhutan arrows has ligatures made with vine tree and waterproofed with wax. There are perhaps cultural reasons for this, or material availability, or both.

Greetings

Gianrico