amakpo / amappo

Language: Ainu
Language: Ainu

Crossbow / Self-shooting trap

This weapon is probably a rare form of a self-firing trap of a self-firing trap, which probably goes back to Chinese influence. The bow stick is guided through a hole at the front end of a rifle-shaped stock. The string on the bow stick was tensioned by a lever-like release mechanism. The arrow lay in a tube in the upper part of the shaft.

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ainu
Object type
crossbows
Dimensions
720 x 870 x 92 mm
Material/Technique
Wood; fibre, vegetable;
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 25257
Other number(s)
RJM 1910/05 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

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