Mongolian Bow Archery

Draw a composite horn bow, adjust for wind and distance, and shoot at a row of small woven-leather cylinders stacked on a ground wall, scoring clearing cylinders.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Mongolia.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Classical Worlds (about 1000 BCE to 500 CE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Steppe and Arctic.