Arrows & darts
Three requirements guide the making of these projectile weapons: traditional materials (dogwood shafts, natural feathers, sinew ligatures, hide glue, reindeer antler or flint), balance and functionality — Bernard was a European champion in prehistoric-weapon shooting — and aesthetics.
Hunting arrowheads
The shafts are made of dogwood (Cornus sanguinea), a wood that is both hard and supple, whose shoots have been used since the Middle Ages to make arrows and crossbow bolts. Foreshafts drilled from dogwood, flint point in a Neolithic or Cahokia style, overall weight around 230 grains.
Atlatl darts
Shaft in Pseudosasa japonica, known as "arrow bamboo" or Yadake, dogwood foreshaft, antler point, duck-feather fletching.
