amazing, Tapasda. bow strings are generally made of muscle sinews along a mammals shoulders or where really long muscles are .. and then processed by aboriginies/ natives into really strong strings..resilient and one that does not dry out and break.
I am amazed astonished that tree bark would yield such strong and resilient material for bow string. Is there any data showing that strength? Did some anthropologists already collect these bows and their strings... or did your group? would we be fortunate to see their specimen? or their papers where they tested the strength wonders never cease... I am not saying it could not happen, just that there is so much we do not know of the native technology. usha di On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Tapas Chakrabarty <[email protected]> wrote: > Syn. > > *Polyalthia parkinsonii.* > Abundant tall trees in interior evergreen forests of Andaman Islands at > low altitudes. > The sample was photographed for documentation as the primitive Jarawas use > the bark strips for making bow string. > > Regards, > TC. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Usha di =========== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
