Asian Traditional Archery Research Network

CONTENTS GUIDE

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As ATARN grows, it can be difficult to find material on specific subjects. The best method is the search function. The search function provides the most comprehensive and reliable guide. You can search previous discussion correspondence, as well as articles and news letters.

If you simply want information on 'bows' or 'archery on horseback ', here is a short listing of the major web pages on ATARN which cover the specific areas. This listing does not include material in the Discussion Forum.

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ATARN Newsletters

• Articles from ATARN Newsletters, 1998-2004 (with index)

Hardware

• Bows

  • Interesting Bow - Chinese Siyahs (China)

  • The Visible Chinese Bow (China)

  • The Buryat Bow (Mongolia)

  • Where can I get a Traditional Asian Bow?

  • Reconstruction of the Niya Bow (China/Central Asia)

  • Reconstruction of the Niya Bow: .Bede .Dwyer's Observations (China/Central Asia)

  • Two Late .Han to .Wei-Jin Bows from .Gansu and .Khotan (China/Central Asia)

  • Chinese Bow Decoration (1) (China)

  • Chinese Bow Decoration (2) (China)

  • Warring States Chinese Bow

  • Scythian Style Bows Discovered in Xinjiang  (Xinjiang, West Asia)

  • Liao (Khitan) Bow (China/Mongolia)

  • Malaysian Pellet Bow (Malaysia)

  • The Magyar (Hungarian) bow (Hungary)

  • Tibetan bows from Qinghai (China/Tibet)

  • Two Turkish Bows  (Turkey)

  • Turkish Bow Tests by Adam Karpowicz.  (Turkey)

  • Performance of Turkish Bows by Adam Karpowicz.  (Turkey)

  • Two South Asian Bows  (India)

  • Photographs of an Old Turkish Bow (Turkey)

  • An Egyptian Composite Bow (Ancient Egypt)

  • The Moshcheveya Balka Bow (Ancient Central Asia)

  • Making a Bamboo Composite Bow (Asian Recurve)

• Crossbows

  • Multiple-shot 'Zhuge' Crossbow (China)

  • The Crossbows of South-West China (China)

  • Yunnan Crossbow / arrows / quiver (China)

  • The Chinese Repeating Crossbow (China)

  • Warring States Chinese Crossbow (China)

  • Qin Dynasty Chinese Crossbow (China)

  • Han and Tang Crossbows and their Mechanisms (China)

  • A Crossbow Mechanism with Some Unique Features from Shandong, China.  (China)

  • The Chinese Crossbow of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) . (China)

• Arrows

  • ATARN Asian Arrowhead Catalogue Project (China)

  • Whistling Arrows and Arrow Whistles (China)

  • Making Traditional Chinese Arrows (China) New

• Quivers / bowcases

  • Chinese Bow Holsters and Quivers of the Qing Dynasty (China)

  • The Closed Quiver  (Central Asia)

  • Making a Closed Quiver (Ancient Central Asia)

  • Quiver and Bow Case Patterns by Cherrie Anne Button (Mamluk), (Tawashi), (Turkoman).

  • Pattern of a quiver from Czartoryski Museum  by Andrzej Abratowski . (Polish 17th C, quiver).
    .pdf versions. Bow-case: [remember to modify the bowcase size according to the size of your own bow!]. Quiver.
     

• Thumbrings

  • How to Make an Archer's Thumb Ring Using Simple Tools (Korea)

  • Early Archers' Rings  (China)

• Miscellaneous

  • Thingies Up-close and Personal (China)

  • Thingies Up-close and Personal Follow-up Correspondence (China)

Technique

• Training

  • Training programmes (China)

• Archery on foot

  • Illustration from the .Wu .Bei .Yao .Lue (Chinese technique)

  • How do I use a Thumb-ring with a Mongolian Draw?

  • Korean Traditional Archery (1)

  • Korean Traditional Archery (2)

  • Letter from Kyongju (Korea)

  • Mongolian National Archery (Mongolia)

  • Tibetan Archery from Qinghai (Amdo) (China/Tibet)

  • Assyrian archery  (Middle East)

  • Freeze-frames illustrating Mongolian archery technique (Mongolia)

  • Video illustrating Mongolian archery technique. (Mongolia)

  • Tibetan and Chinese Archery: Radio Television Hong Kong's 's Programme, "Chinese Archery: a Lost Martial Art".  (Link courtesey of RTHK) Streaming video, MS Media Player and Real Player.

• Archery on horseback 

  • Video illustrating Mongolian horseback archery (Mongolia)

  • Video of Magyar Traditional Foot and Horseback Archery Technique  (Hungary)

  • Letter from Fort Dodge

  • Chinese Horseback Archery   (China)

• Bow and arrow making

  • Letter from Dulaankhaan (Mongolian bow-making)

  • Chinese bowmakers' tools (China)

  • The Story of Making a Chinese Bow (This is the draft storyboard for the making  of a documentary film in co-operation with the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence.)

  • Cutting Horn for Bows by Adam Karpowicz. (An illustrated, step-by-step guide to the most economical way to cut water buffalo horn for making composite horn-bows.) 

  • What is the correct way to string a heavy horn bow that is recurved to a C shape?

  • Preparing Cattle Tendons for Backing a Horn Bow.  by Jano Nagy

  • Making Fish Bladder Glue (Traditional composites, general)

Miscellaneous

• Perfecting the Mind and the Body (Qigong) (China)

• 'Makiwara Madness' (China)

Folklore / Culture / History

• Interview with Ms. Wu Yonghua, 6 April 2000 (China)

• The History of Ju Yuan Hao Bowmakers of Beijing (China)

• Chinese Archery - An Unbroken Tradition? (China)

• The Philosophy of Chinese Archery (China)

• Xibe (Manchu) National Archery (Xinjiang, China)

• Higo Saburo: One of Japan's leading recent bowyers (Japan)

• Bow and Arrow Symbolism (Various Asian countries)

• How Huang Di Invented the Bow and Arrow (Chinese folk tale for Children. Acrobat .pdf)

• The End of an Archery Tradition in South India (India)

• The End of an Archery Tradition: Sri Lankan Archery (Sri Lanka)

• Travels into Turkey (Busbecq) (Turkey)

• Inouomono (Dog Shooting) (Japan)

• Relationship between Japanese Kyudo and Shinto (Japan)

• A Brief Historical Overview of Hungarian Archery (Hungary)

• What Came First in Mongolia - the Wheel or the Bow? (Mongolia)

• The Bow - Weapon of the Ancient Buryat People (Mongolia)

• What is the Script on the Chinggis Khan's Stele About? (flight shooting)

• Archery: the Real Game is Played Elsewhere (Bhutanese archery)

• Letter from Denton Hill (Various Asian countries)

• Writing Archery Fiction (Various Asian countries)

• 'Master Zhang Shoots the Dog in the Moon' (China)

• ATARN Picture Archive (ethnographic/antiquarian) (Various Asian countries)

• What are the dates of the Chinese Dynasties? And how are Chinese words pronounced? (China)

Last up-dated 21 September 2006