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bow at center as there is a curvature of. the bow outward. Length 

 of bow exceeds by several centimeters the height of a full grown 

 Negrito and measures 196 centimeters (75.5 inches) in length; 3.3 

 centimeters (1.3 inches) in width at center; and 1.8 centimeters 

 (0.7 inch) in section, with a groove hollowed on the inside of bow 

 to a depth of 0.3 centimeter. 



Collected by Lieut. W. F. H. Godson, United States Army, near 

 Camp Stotsenburg, Pampanga, Luzon. (PL 2, No. 1.) Cat. No. 

 306681, U.S.N.M. 



Bow,, Bagoho,) Davao Provi7ice, Mindanao. — The palmwood bow 

 stock is wrapped with a continuous spiral of rattan splint. Over 

 this simple roll wrapping are placed braided bands of rattan at 

 evenly spaced intervals along the bow. These braided bands have 

 an average width of 1.5 centimeters except the one at the center of 

 the bow, which is 18 centimeters (3.2 inches) wide. The weave is 

 a complex cross weave similar to the rattan braided bands placed 

 on the handles of Moro parangs. The bow stock is not nearly so 

 highly polished as are the Zambales Negrito bows. The bow is 

 straight, so that a simple bow cord would touch at the center. It 

 is flat on inside and convexly curved on outside and at lateral edges. 

 Cord is taut only when the bow is flexed. This operation is per- 

 formed with the aid of the extended foot and toe muscles of the 

 Bagobo warrior. The cord is composed of the split section of a 

 bamboo, 0.7 centimeter wide extending to within a few centimeters 

 of the nock at one end or horn of the bow. The bow cord of bam- 

 boo splint terminates in a bulbous enlargement at each end. 

 Wrapped around the splint cord at a point just below each bulbous 

 truncated end is a two-ply twine of the same material. This wrap- 

 ping extends in a loop which slips freely about the nock end of the 

 bow, and is fitted, as mentioned before, into the nock groove only 

 when the bow is bent. The object in thus constructing the bow 

 cord is to remove the tensile strain from the bamboo splint cord 

 except when the bow is actually in use. There are numerous en- 

 circling grooves incised around the bow ends above the nock. These 

 grooves are for fastening the short extension of the two-ply abaca 

 cord which prevents the bamboo bow cord from slipping down the 

 bow too far when not in use and thus increasing the danger of 

 breakage of the rather weak bamboo splint cord. 



Length of bow, 185 centimeters (71 inches). Collected by Misses 

 E. H. and S. S. Metcalf. (PI. 2, No. 3.) Cat. No. 286267, U.S.N.M. 



Bow, Moro, Mindanao. — This bow is not up to the standard of the 

 Bagobo bow so far as beauty of design and workmanship displayed 

 in the wrapping is concerned. The bow stock is of the familiar 

 palmwood, palma hrava and is highly polished. It stands perfectly 

 straight, is flat on its inner surface and broadly convex on the out- 



