Mongolia & Khitan
Naadam festivals, Buryat bows, Khitan archaeology and the living tradition of the steppe. · 12 articles
From the original section page
- What Came First in Mongolia - the
Wheel or the Bow? by Jenni
Storey. Re-printed with permission from MONGOL
MESSENGER.
Letter from Dulaankhaan by Stephen Selby. July 1999
What is the Script on the Chinggis Khan Stele About? An article about an early record of a feat of maksmanship from the time of Chinggis Khan. By Dr Gongor LHAGVASUREN, Rector of the Mongolian National Institute of Physical Education.
The Bow - Weapon of the Ancient Buryat People by Madame Kh. D. Gombojapova, Buryat State University. An article about drag-net hunting among the Buryat Mongol people.
The Asiatic Bow. by Taras Vladimirovich Plakhotnichenko. Text in Russian only.
The Buryat Bow. by Taras Vladimirovich Plakhotnichenko. Text in Russian only.
The Buryat Bow. by Taras Vladimirovich Plakhotnichenko. Text in English .
A Mongolian Text on Archery
(Mongolian language only)ATARN and the Hong Kong Island Archery Club Organise a Joint Workshop on Mongolian Traditional Archery. News of an ATARN meeting on 14 March 1999 in Hong Kong.
Mongolian National Archery. by Choijelsuengiin Munkhtsetseg. Re-printed with permission from Instinctive Archery Magazine, Spring 1999 .
Mongolian archery graphic archive. Graphical material on the history and techniques of Mongolian archery.
Video illustrating Mongolian archery technique. (streaming video for use with modem speeds >= 44 KBps)
Video illustrating Mongolian horseback archery . (Microsoft Windows Media Player file.)
The Asian Bow (Russian)
Азиатский лук The Asian Bow by Taras Vladimirovich Plakhotnichenko licensed to ATARN Азиатский лук Предисловие. Цель настоящей статьи ознакомить любителей исторического реконструирования с к…
The Buryat Bow
The Buryat Bow by Taras Vladimirovich Plakhotnichenko Licensed to ATARN Б урятский лук Описание лука Изготовление лука Тетива Стрелы Оперение стрел Способы стрельбы И сконно присущие бурятам…
The Buryat Bow
The Buryat Bow Description, Fabrication, String, Arrows, Fletching, Shooting Methods by Taras Vladimirovich Plakhotnichenko Translated by Zogit Davidov and Jack Farrell and edited for readab…
The Archery Tradition in Mongolia
Mongolian National Archery by Munkhtsetseg Re-printed with permission from INSTINCTIVE ARCHER MAGAZINE It was a great pleasure for me to find out that people around the world are taking an i…
The Naadam Archery Competition
What Came First in Mongolia - the Wheel or the Bow? by Jenni Storey Re-printed with permission from MONGOL MESSENGER July 9, 1997. e-mail: monmessenger@mongolnet.mn For centuries the nationa…
Letter: July 1999
Dear All, Letter from Dulaankhaan. When I was a boy (and of course, I still am one) I had a children’s encyclopedia with pictures comparing the landscape before the advent of mankind, follow…
What is the Script on the Chinggis Khan Stele About?
WHAT IS THE SCRIPT ON THE CHINGGIS KHAN'S STELE ABOUT? A monument to top athletic performance? A Monument to the Uigarjin Mongolian script? Dr Gongor LHAGVASUREN In 1818, G. I. Spasskii, the…
Buryat Archery
The Bow - Weapon of the Ancient Buryat People by Kh. D. Gombojapova, Buryat State University In the minds of modern peoples, the bow and arrow carries connotations of being 'simple' or 'naïv…
Turkish bow tests
The Moshcheveya Balka Bow By Andrew Hall Below is a photograph of my fifth composite bow. It is based on one of the circa 8th century bows found at the Moshcheveya Balka site in the northern…
Hong Kong Mongolian Archery Workshop
ATARN and the Hong Kong Island Archery Club Organise a Joint Workshop on Mongolian Traditional Archery Photographs courtesy of So Fai-sing ATARN joined together with the Hong Kong Island Arc…
Mongolian Archery Technique — Graphic Archive
Mongolian Archery Graphic Archive #1 Freeze-frames illustrating Mongolian archery technique. (Click on small images to view at full size.) Choijelsurengiin Mendbayar posed for these photogra…
Mongolian text on archery
A Mongolian Text on Archery Published with permission of the Mongolian National Sports Institute, who own the copyright. Original text is in the Mongolian National Library, Ulaanbaatar. Copy…