April 5, 2024
Vintage Montagnard Crossbow With Quiver & Nine Bolts
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Vintage Montagnard Handmade Crossbow With Quiver and Nine Bolts DESCRIPTION This is an authentic piece of Vietnamese Montagnard tribal art in the form of a handmade wooden crossbow with a quiver and nine bolts or arrows. The crossbow is carved from two extremely hard dense smooth woods, and I believe that teak may have been used for the bow. The crossbow measures 30" long x 35 1/2" wide x 3 1/4" high. The bow string is a taut piece of tough plant fiber stretched and notched at the ends of the bow. The trigger mechanism is a simple piece of wood with a notch for holding the stretched bow string. When the loaded crossbow was aimed, the tribesman simply pulled the wooden trigger to fire the bolt. The quiver is made from a short hollow section of a piece of bamboo and has a loop made from plant fiber to attach the quiver to a belt or to use looped around the wrist. The nine bolts are sharpened straight pieces of bamboo to which the maker attached folded pieces of plant leaf material in a notch at the end to act like the feathers on an arrow to make the bolt fly straight and true. This crossbow and the quiver and bolts were made by the Degar, who are the indigenous people of the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The French, who proceeded the Americans in Vietnam, referred to the Degar as Montagnard , which translated means "mountain people"
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