Sharing another SE Asian tribal crossbow

[DaveF]

That looks like a nice, solid example of a montagnard crossbow.
I've attached some photos of my example, a smaller, younger sibling of yours as it's span is only 59cm. My assumption about my crossbow is that it was made as a tourist item. It looks like it could easily be taken apart and reassembled. It has a string (actually a strip of bamboo), but the main body has cracked at the front. I think it just wasn't substantial enough to cope with the forces released when the crossbow was fired, hence the string has survived? Although it may be a tourist item, it seems to have been made in the traditional way with the arrows having fletching made from a leaf folded into a diamond shape and with a trigger that seems to be carved from the same wood as the main body of the crossbow.

[wildwolberine]

Originally Posted by DaveF

That looks like a nice, solid example of a montagnard crossbow.
I've attached some photos of my example, a smaller, younger sibling of yours as it's span is only 59cm.

Thanks for sharing! That’s a nice example, and it shows how the string and trigger mechanism are constructed.

[Ren Ren]

Your crossbow is similar to the crossbows of the Sedang people of Central Vietnam. The photos were taken by me mainly from the collection of the Musée du quai Branly in Paris, France.