Traditional Indian archery

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shikari
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Traditional Indian archery

Post by shikari » Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:46 am

Hi all,I am an archery enthusiast and like building my own archery equipment.I am particularly interested in making traditional bows from India and surrounding areas,If anyone has any pictures of bows and arrows I would really love to see them,Tribal or others does not matter.
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Re: Traditional Indian archery

Post by shootingstars » Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:49 pm

Hi, I have good models of bow manufacturing, I shall send you the pics soon.
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Re: Traditional Indian archery

Post by shikari » Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:53 pm

Hello,
I would appericiate if you could send me pictures of the traditional Indian bows,particularly Mughal crabbows or any other bows from the meuseums in India.I had visited the Salarjung meuseum in Hydrabad a long time ago and can't recall if there are any bows in the collection there,I would appericiate if you could let me know about that.
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Re: Traditional Indian archery

Post by kitty » Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:41 pm

Hi I am also a bow enthusiast I made one with twine threads, Beeding wood (thin slices of flat teak wood used for lining of furniture). I ll send u a pic soon.

Krishna
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