A bamboo, thread, and silk pellet bow made in Lahore, India, probably in the first half of the 18th century. The bow is about 1½ metres or 58 inches long.
This is object 3463(IS) in the Victoria and Albert Museum's collections of arms and armour, and of objects from South and Southeast Asia. You can view this and other pellet bows by appointment at the V&A East Storehouse, in London.
Photo: V&A.
What could a bow shoot, besides arrows? Stones or pellets.
Pellet bows propel a pebble or clay pellet from a silk pouch on a double string.
The artistry is both in making the bow and string and in the shooting technique, or khatra. On releasing the string and […]
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