On the structure and affinities of the composite bow
A plate from the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, published in London in 1889 by Harrison and Sons, by Henry Balfour, an ethnologist writing for other anthropologists and museum scholars. The engraved plates dissect composite bows, with cross-sections, layered strips and tapered limbs drawn in fine black line on cream paper. A designer could draw on their clean technical diagrams, the hatched layering of laminated materials, and the labelled fig. numbering system for structural illustration.
