Dart quiver

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Originally Posted by Sajen

Hello Clément,

it's for sure not a Dayak dart quiver (tolor), they look very different. Please post a picture from one of the darts, this will help to determine the origin of your quiver. But your quiver shows a very good age from years of handling. Nice piece.
Here an interesting thread about dart quivers: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=tolor

Regards,
Detlef

yeah its from vietnam or china , its for a local type of low powered crossbow with a peg trigger... in china these are still commonly used to hunt and the meo have target competitions with them as well.
made by mong, meo or other people from that broad ethno group.
i always though these would be poisoned.
but it appears they are not.. they seem to use them to hunt very small game. mostly bats, rats, cats, civet and various asian squirrels.

there is some god youtube videos showing people shooting these in both china and vietnam and it appear the universally do not nock the arrow to the string like european crossbows but instead have the arrow about 3 inches from the string and the string will strike the arrow after some travel.. the strings are hard material , ive seen them made from a strip of bamboo.. in the manner the papuan natives make their bow strings