Note 308 — Chapter VII
Reading edition
The substance used in the manufacture of the bow-string varies with the region; thus in the west of Africa it is always of rattan, as far as Butembo (country of the Ponondas), where strings of Crotalaria and bamboo begin to be used. (Weule, Ethnol. Notizblatt. Mus. Berlin, vol. i., No. 2, p. 39, 1895–96.)