It is my duty and pleasure to report to this forum my YouTube sighting of a tribesman with a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle making a bow and tying the string with two different knots, neither of which is exactly like what we usually know as “the” Bowstring Knot. The bow maker works with methods I reckon to have been the same since stone-age times. He uses a very good steel knife, but I think he could just as easily have made his bow and arrow with stone tools. The bow is bamboo, the string is rattan.
THANKS for a sighting of Knots in the Wild --a thread that
could benefit from occasional contribution.
Now, ..
Thanks too, for this; but it would help everyone who reads …
to have an immediate presentation of the knot (and not one
5+minutes away by Youtube fetching) !
The bow, bowstring, and arrows are made entirely from green bamboo. As such, the “string” doesn’t behave in an entirely “stringlike” (is that a word?) fashion. During the initial tying of the first loop, it looks like he actually “folds” the string over, at which point I would suggest that it behaves more like a wire or stiff tape than a string.
