Sharing another SE Asian tribal crossbow

[DaveF]

That looks like a nice, solid example of a montagnard crossbow.
I've attached some photos of my example, a smaller, younger sibling of yours as it's span is only 59cm. My assumption about my crossbow is that it was made as a tourist item. It looks like it could easily be taken apart and reassembled. It has a string (actually a strip of bamboo), but the main body has cracked at the front. I think it just wasn't substantial enough to cope with the forces released when the crossbow was fired, hence the string has survived? Although it may be a tourist item, it seems to have been made in the traditional way with the arrows having fletching made from a leaf folded into a diamond shape and with a trigger that seems to be carved from the same wood as the main body of the crossbow.