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Old 27th August 2006, 04:40 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Flavio
Congoblades, the two that i have posted they have the shaft made of reed. Maybe yours is not bamboo, but simple cane? Anyway many arrows in Africa show shaft made of cane. Also could be that the bow and the arrows came from different parts of the world, and more, could be that both aren't african because, since a bow is strictly related to the function that it has, the material and the shape could be very close in distant and different parts of world.
Flavio, a better look at the cord tells me it is the same matirial as the bow, same structure and olso the same bulges, typical for bamboo.
Reed and cane, translating these gives me the same answer for both?
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