Turkish bow

rtvn · Post by **rtvn** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 1:51 pm

Dear Members,

I took some photos of a Turkish bow from the Islamic Art Exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest.
The bow is from the early 17th century. All other weaponry items of this small exhibition are, according to the given information, ceremonial weapons. This is not mentioned in particular for the bow, as it is for the other items.
The bow has some interesting features like birch bark cover and brownish horn.

rtvn · Post by **rtvn** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 1:54 pm

two more pictures

rtvn · Post by **rtvn** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 1:59 pm

this pic is better

Arry · Post by **Arry** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 8:57 pm

Thanks for uploading these pics!

rtvn · Post by **rtvn** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:21 am

Arry, you are welcome. Sorry for the bad quality, mobile phone.
The museum is announcing a much bigger constant exhibition of Islamic art compiled from its collection soon. I guess we can expect more archery items.

Bede · Post by **Bede** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 12:35 am

It's hard to tell from the pictures, but the arrows do look like they might be Crimean Tatar.

rtvn · Post by **rtvn** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 12:02 pm

Here's the description and the quivers. It's all described as Turkish.
But I also think the arrows look much longer than one would expect for Turkish ones. Or do you judge this by the fletching?

Bede · Post by **Bede** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:12 am

It was more the look of the nocks. Some Crimean Tatar arrows have Turkish style nocks, but most have wider self nocks. The points did not look like common Turkish ones either either.

Uli · Post by **Uli** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:16 pm

thanks for posting !
agree with Bede: looks like crimean tatar arrows

rtvn · Post by **rtvn** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:04 pm

Thanks for the assessment.

Bj?rn Sofeit · Post by **Bj?rn Sofeit** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:29 pm

The deco on the belly reminds of the bows in Karlsruhe?

Turkish bow

Turkish bow

Turkish bow

Turkish bow

Museum of Applied Arts Budapest

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