Description

Skyhorse Publishing, New York. Published date: 2007. Softcover, 49 pp plus xxxvii-xciv leaves of plates; 28 cm. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white line drawings reproduced from the Smithsonian Report of 1893. In good+ condition. Glossy illustrated paper covers have light bumping to edges and corners and mild surface wear; binding firm; light foxing to edges of text block and inside of front and rear covers; interior pages lightly toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Reprint of Otis Tufton Mason's classic ethnological study originally published in the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report of 1893. [from back cover] In this authoritative guide, Otis Tufton Mason details the construction and history of the archery tools used by Native Americans - from the Inuits of the frozen North, to the famous tribes of the Plains, the South, and the East. Mason describes in intricate, fascinating detail the tools and methodologies used to create a wide variety of weapons and accessories. His insightful text is supplemented by hundreds of carefully rendered line drawings. This book gives modern bowyers and hunters new perspective on their sport, and provides anthropologists and historians with a great resource for reference and study.