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Vanishing craft

Daily Tribune · Jun 30, 2018, 8:00 AM

Yuming A-von, an aborigine from Taiwan’s Atayal tribe, puts a bamboo arrow through a flame to help make it pliable, in the Wulai district of New Taipei City. A-von’s own Atayal tribe used homemade wooden bows for hunting for centuries, but the craft has fallen out of fashion. AFP