Bibliography for Composite Bow Construction

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  • 28. The Egyptian Composite Bow.Eugene Robinson.Archery,April 1951,p.4.

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  • 39. The Bow of Ramses II.F von Luschan.Zeit.Fur.Ethnologie.XXV,1893,p.266.

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  • 41. Beitrage zur Archaologie des Attila-Reiches Joachim Werner Bayerische Akademie Der Wissenschaffen,Abhandlungen,Neue Folge Heft 38 B.Munchen 1956.

  • 42. North American Indian Bows and Arrows.Otis T. Mason.

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  • 44 Bogenfragmente aus Carnuntum und von der unteren Wolga.Joachim Werner.Eurasia Septentrionalis Antiqua VII.Akateeminen Kirjakauppa,Helsinki. 1932.p.3.

  • 45. Shasho Ruiju Kokujikai (Book of Archery),Vol.I.Sorai Ogyu.

  • 46. Archery in Moghul India.W .F.Paterson.Islamic Quarterly.P.81.

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  • 53. An Analysis of Arrow-weights in an Islamic Military Manuel. J.D. Latharn, W.F. Paterson,Journal of Semitic Studies, Vol. 10 - 11, 1965, P.253.

  • 54. An Unpublished Egyptian Composite Bow in The Brooklyn Museum. W. McLeod, AJA-.

  • 56. Egyptian Composite Bows in New York. W. McLeod, AJA-66, 1962, p.l3.

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  • 59. Archery; The Technical Side. C H Hickman F Nagler, and P.E. Klopsteg, National Field Archery Association 1947.

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  • 64. Foxfire 3.Eliot Wigginton and his students.Anchor Books,Doubleday,1975.

  • 65. The composite Bow in Central Asia.B.A.Litvinski.Soviet Archeology.No.1 Moscow,1966,p.51-69.

  • 66. Un Arc de Kyudo.Jean d'Anval.Objets et Mondes.Tome 5, fasicule 2,1965.

  • 67. Die Bogen Nordasiens.Bruno Adler.Internationales Archiv fur Ethnographie vol.15,1902.p.1-27.

  • 68. The Eskimo Bow and the Asiatic Composite.T.M.Hamilton.Arctic Anthropology V1-2,1970.p.43.

  • 69. Borojenie Srednevekovikh Kovhevnikov Yujnoi Sibirie i Sentralnoi Azii Y.S.Khudiakov.Akademia Nauk SSSR.1986.

  • 70. The Greenland Bow.Kaj Birket-Smith.Meddelelser om Gronland.Bind LVI Cobenhaven,1918.

  • 71. Der Pfiel Bei Den Innerasiatischen Reiternomaden und Ihren Nachbarn Kathe U.Kohalmi.Acta Orientalia .Budapest,1953 .P.109.

  • 72. Ruchnoie Metatelnoie Orujie,(Luk i Streli,samostreli).A.F.Medvedev Archeologia SSSR.VIII-XIV bb.Moscow,1966.

  • 73. A Recently Discovered Compound Bow.F.E.Brown,Annales De L'Institut Kondakov,IX,Praha,1937.P.1-10.

  • 74. Anneaux Destines A Tendre La Corde De L'Arc.H.Ghirshman. Syria,Tome XXXV,Paris,1958.P.61-72.

  • 75. Luk i Srelii (Bows and Arrows).D.N.Anuchin.Archeologo-Etnographicheskii Ocherki.Moskva,1887.

  • 76. A Composite Bow from Hunza.H.Balfour.Man.July,1937,Nos.194-195,p.160.

  • 77. Bows and Bow Shooting among the Lapps.Josef Alm.Ethnos,vol.1, no.6,1936.p.153.

  • 78. The History of the composite Bow from IX-XII Centuries.(In Russian) Yu.S.Khudiakov.Institute of the Siberian Academy of Science.No.1,1977.p.63.

  • 79. The Peoples of Siberia.M.G.Levin,L.P.Potapov.University of Chicago Press.

  • 80. Archaeological Researchs in Sinkiang,Especially the Lop-Nor Region. Folke Bergman,Reports from the scientific expedition to the north-west provinces of China under the leadership of Dr.Sven Hedin.Publication 7.Stockholm 1939.

  • 81. Classification of Arrows from the Chertomlik Kurghan.A.Yu.Alexsiev. Archeologicheskii Sbornik 24,1983,p.73.

  • 82. Regeszeti Tanulmanyok I.Fodor Istvan.Archaologische Studien I.Szeged,1985.

  • 83. Die Bereitschafs_Bogenbehalter (Gorythos) In Den Grabern Der Ungarischen Landnahmezeit.L.Revesz.Acta Archeologica Academia Scientiarum Hungaricae 44,1992,Akademiai Kiado,Budapest.p.345.

  • 84. Material Culture of Cenral Asia and Kazakstan.Slojnie luki Evraziiskikh Steppi i Irana v Skifo-Sarmatskuyu Epoku.A.M.Khazanov.Moscow ,1966.p.29.

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  • 86. Uber Bogen und Pfeil.Dr.Freiherren Hammer-Purgstall.Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften.Wien,1853,p.1-34.

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  • 90. How to Make a Horn Bow.Curtis Byrd.Primitive Archer.Vol.1,issue2.1993.

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  • 92. Persian Painting.Sheila R.Canby.Thames and Hudson,New York,1993.

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  • 95. Traditional ChineseDesigns.Edited by Stanley Appelbaum.Dover, New York,1987.

  • 96. The New Book of Chinese Lattice Designs.Daniel Sheets Dye Dover New York,1981.

  • 97. Creative Casting.Sharr Choate.Crown Publishers,New York,1986.

  • 98. The Hand Forged Knife.Karl Shroen.Knife World Publications,P.O.box 3395 730 Broadway,Knoxville Tennessee.1984.

  • 99. Casting Moulds Made in Metal.H.H.Coghlan,F.S.A.Man,nos.244,245. Nov.1952.p.162.

  • 100. The Complete Metalsmith.Tim McCreight.Davis Publications,Worcester, Massachusetts,1991.

  • 101. The Crossbow,and an Appendix on the Turkish Bow.Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey The Holland Press,London.1903,1990.

  • 102. A Magyorok Ijja 'es Nyila.Cs.Sebestyen Karoly.Dolgoratok,1932.p.164-226.