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  • (Left) Princess Yasodhara points to Prince Siddhattha, Bodhisatta performing feats of archery. (Right) The demonstration of the archery skills of Prince Siddhattha, showing three, (top right) of the twelve feats as in the Sarabhanga Jataka, one of the stories of the former lives of Buddha.
  • Lolo tribsemen, one of the non-Han ethnic groups in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces of south China. Noted for horsemanship and archery.
  • A herald reads from a black parabaik and announces that Prince Siddhattha will prove he is proficientt in the art of shooting arrows, archery to the people
  • Boys shooting arrows at a target set up on a wall. Etching by W. Woernle after David Teniers the younger.
  • A woman is aiming at a target with a bow and arrow as a man sits under a tree and watches. Engraving.
  • Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
  • Men shooting at a target with crossbows. Etching.
  • [Fund-raising sticker for the Daily Mail Red Cross Fund. Alliance].
  • Burmese-Pali Manuscript.
  • Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke. Line engraving by J. de Courbes, 1624.
  • (Left) Prince Siddhattha (Bodhisatta) asks his father
  • A herald reads from a black parabaik and announces
  • Atalanta defending her chastity during a hunt by shooting her pursuer. Engraving by J.K. Baldrey after H.W. Bunbury, 1790.
  • Tametomo banishes the smallpox demon from the Island of Oshima. Colour woodcut by Yoshikazu, 1851/1853.
  • Tametomo banishes the smallpox demon from the Island of Oshima. Colour woodcut by Yoshikazu, 1851/1853.
  • Troops attending a muster in Scotland play the game of popinjay, watched by crowds of local people. Engraving by J. Carter, 1836, after R.B. Davis.