[Aztlan] Bows and Arrows

[Nick Hopkins]

This is not relevant to the search for Precolumbian bows and arrows,  
but I remember seeing somewhere, in an earlier source (1940s?   
Carnegie?  Smithsonian?  Tribes and Temples?) how the Chols and  
people in northern Chiapas/Tabasco had relearned how to use bows and  
arrows after they were prohibited from having guns.  Note also that  
the Lacandons make bows and arrows, altho in living memory they have  
only used them as tourist goods.  In recent years they reduced them  
to the length that will fit in an overhead bin, altho I don't think  
you could carry them on these days!  (Anyway, there is a nice  
dissertation for somebody!).

Nick Hopkins