Chenchu boy with bow

This Chenchu boy demonstrates how to use a bow and arrow. Although Chenchus did hunt, their catch was typically meagre (a jungle-fowl or two). The bamboo bow, strung with deer sinew, is used with bamboo arrows, some tipped with iron. He wears the typical cloth penis cover held up by a twisted fibre....

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Full title: Chenchu boy with bow [electronic resource].
Format: Photo           
Language: English
Published: [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1940.
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
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