Indian Wood
what type of wood did the indian’s make their arrows out of?
Native Americans — “Indian” is not the correct name, really, since India is a completely different continent — used many different kinds of wood to make bows. Of course, certain kinds of wood are found only in certain areas of the Western Hemishere, so the inhabitants of one region would most often use types of wood that were not available in other regions.
Here is a short list of woods, in no particular order, which were — and are — most commonly used to make bows:
– Osage orange (also known as “horse apple”, “hedge apple” and “Bois D’arc”)
– Elm
– Oak
– Maple
– Hickory
– Yew
– Ash
– Black Locust
– Hackberry
– Juniper (Ishi’s favorite bow wood)
As I said, it is a short list, there are other woods not included here. The important thing to remember is that each type of wood generally requires a specific design for it to be most useful; elm, for example, does not make a good longbow of the “traditional” English “D” style with narrow limbs, but it makes an excellent flatbow with wide limbs. Sometimes two or more woods were combined to make one bow, as in a hickory-backed osage bow (not done often, but it was done).
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