Manual Arts High School - Artisan Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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THE HISTORY OF ARCHERY By Allison Proctor Archery is an important word. At its mere mention one can almost hear the twang of the bowstring and the soft whir of the arrow as it speeds through the air. One thinks of Robin Hood, who in gay defiance used a Norman king ' s deer to perfect his markmanship, and the godlike Teucer, as Homer called him, the master archer of the Greeks, who be- came the first king of Troy. The word itself comes from the Latin arcus. meaning bow. and the Old French Archerie, bowman. As old as history is the use of the bow and arrow. Archery was a serious business with our ancestors, who depended upon the bow and ar- row ' for their food, clothing, and for protection against their enemies. Two of the most popular bows for war and the chase have been the crossbow and the longbow. It was mentioned in the bible, and a Jewish historian alleges that the bow was considered the most efficient weapon of the Jews. The bow was deadly in the hands of their conquerors, the Babylon- ians, who have left many sculptured memorials of it. Their near neigh- bors, the Persians, cultivated its practice, and the Scythians carried the lesson of its value to the Greeks, from whom it passed with the empire of the world to the Romans. These in their turn were vanquished by the superior skill of the archers of the ioths. Huns and the Vandals. Both as a weapon ot the chase and for military purposes, the bow was for centuries most formidable in the hands of the English. With the longbow the ' decided the fate of the nations. The skill of the hunters and the wonderful feats of their archers have come down to us from many sources. )ne old black-letter balad tells of Three Archers one of whom shooting before the King, split a wand in two at a distance of 400 yards; and then, not satisfied with his example, tied his eldest son, a lad of sex- en years, to a stake a hundred and twenty yards off ami shot in two an apple placed on his head. This seems to have been a favorite lest ot skill as it was the feat bv which William Tell was tried.