Primitive Bows
Primitive
Primitive bows are wooden bows that have no fiberglass. They can be composite bows: in two or more pieces (perhaps different woods laminated together) and with different materials like horn and sinew, like the Hungarian styled bow below.
Then there is the self-bow which is made out of a single piece of wood and is often the kind you see in the archery tag when people post photos of bows they made themselves! (If anyone submits a photo of their primitive/self bow I'll use it in this post with a link to you!)
If backed by hide or sinew, it is still a self-bow since the wood itself is one piece.
As seen above, primitive bows can be both longbows and recurves.
Note: I don't know if using a modern string would negate the "primitive" aspect of a bow; I think it might just because it's modern but I'll check and get back to this. This goes for modern glue as well.
