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ANCIENT AND MODERN METHODS 



Fig. 35. Egyptian. 



really held in an horizontal position, and the release prac- 

 ticed was the one I 

 have designated as the 

 tertiary release. The 

 Egyptian artist, igno- 

 rant of perspective 

 drawing and utterly 

 unable to represent a 

 bow foreshortened, has 

 drawn the bow in a 

 vertical position. As a 

 further proof of this, 

 we find that the tribes 

 of North American In- 

 dians and the Siamese 

 who practice the terti- 

 ary release usually hold 

 the bow in an horizontal 

 position. An examina- 

 tion of the accompany- 

 ing figures Avill make 

 this clear. Fig. 35 is 

 copied from the cast re- 

 ferred to in the British 

 jNIuseum ; Fig. 36, 

 from \yilkinson,Vol, i., 

 p. 307; Fig. 37, from 

 Wilkinson, Vol. i., p. 

 309. Reginald Stuart 

 Poole, Esq., of the 

 British Musenm, has 



kindly sent me an out- 

 Fig. 37. Egyptian. jj^^^ ^^ ^j^^ ^^^^j, ^^^^ ^^ 



the ancient Egyptian arrow which shows a straight and 



Fig. 36. Egyptian. 



