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• The Banshee Bow is primarily designed to be used in battle from the back of a banshee in flight.

• The bow is a composite design made from horn, decorated with banshee motifs and markings most likely to personalize the bow for the rider and make the bow more aesthetically pleasing. The handle is made from woven fiber adhered with a plant based glue. The string is made from gut and decorated with small beads. The very light threads on the string can help determine wind direction for a stationary shot. The low hand grip and shorter base of the bow allows for easy change of position while in the saddle making sure that no maneuverability is lost with the transition of the bow across the banshee. Additionally, the lower part of the bow stays clear of the banshee. It includes its own quiver to hold arrows enabling the rider to more easily draw an arrow and aim which is located at the join of either the left or right wing (riders preference for which side) to the body of the banshee.

• The bow weighs roughly 3.4 kilograms and is 2.9 meters high.

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• This ranged bow is primarily designed for ceremony by clan elders, but it is crafted to the peak of Na'vi design and thus functions perfectly in hunt or battle. Fashioned in honor of the direhorse, these exquisite bows are traditionally handed down from generation to generation, and become powerful symbols of survival, continuity, and tradition.

• Shaped wood from Hometree, string is made from animal gut.

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• The Direhorse Bows are used by Na'vi when riding direhorses.

• After completion of Iknimaya and Uniltaron, each hunter is allowed to carve a bow from a branch of Hometree. These bows are a symbol of adulthood and its accompanying responsibilities. They also serve as the primary hunting weapon for Na'vi warriors. This ranged bow is highly decorated and is appropriate for use in ceremonies. But it is crafted to the peak of Na'vi design and functions extremely well in real-life situations.

• Bow is made from shaped wood. Handle made from scaled animal skin adhered with a plant-based glue and additionally bound with decorative woven banding. The string is made from sturmbeest gut. Low hand grip and shorter base of bow allows for easy change of position while on the saddle.

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• The Dual Blades are a very dangerous short range Na'vi weapon. Presumably, they are used solely as a combat weapon, as bows are more often used for hunting. They can inflict serious close range damage if handled properly.

• The weapon currently only appears in James Cameron's Avatar: The Game. It is used by Na'vi warriors as a melee weapon.

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• Ranged weapon, relatively short so that they can be maneuvered in a jungle environment. Na'vi weapons have changed little over the course of eons.

• Size ranged from 1.5m to 2.5m

• The standard Na'vi arrow has an oversized bone arrow point bound to a reed shaft with glue and fiber. The Na'vi bow draws to about one-half the bow length, and bow length falls a little short of the height of the archer, making arrows approximatly 5 feet in length.

• Fletching is feather in two styles, lashed with plant fiber or animal sinew. One style is a standard straight two feather fletch made of tail feather so it lays vertically and flat on the shaft. The other is a spiral fletch wrapped around the shaft and trimmed to ensure rapid flight. Although neurotoxin is used on Na'vi arrows to subdue the large fauna present on Pandora, it is not needed for smaller quarry due to the size of the arrow point and the massive nature of the arrow.

• The Na'vi are not known to utilize quivers to carry their arrows in bulk, and often do not carry more arrows than a single hand can fit as well as their bow. The Na'vi bow styles are different from that of the human, the drawing arm usually upturned and the hand backwards, with two long fingers holding the string taught. The Na'vi are exremely accurate with their arrows, which fly relatively fast, and can pack the punch to go through a human ship's windshield (which are actually not bulletproof, as demonstrated on Trudy's Samson by Quaritch in the hangar) at close range, as depicted several times in the Battle of the Tree of Souls. However, if the range is too far, it merely creates chips in the windshield, as depicted in the destruction of Hometree.

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• The Na'vi hunting knife is a commonly used tool by all members of a Na'vi clan. The blade is made from the wing claw of an Ikran (Banshee), and is of a size so that it can be used in many different ways.

• The blade comes in a variety of shapes, such as straight or curved, and is somewhat translucent. The handle is most likely made out of wood or other organic matter. A notable fact is that each knives' handle is customized by its wielder, and can range from bare wood to being covered in organic netting. It is also speculated that it is traditional to customize the blade's sheath, as well as the blade, as every knife is different in every aspect, showing the personal imprint on it from its maker and user. The sheath of the weapon is most likely made of wood, and can be placed at the hip, or across the chest held in a series of straps, made from the tanned hides of local wildlife.

• The knife is avery important part of the culture of the Na'vi. In fact most of the members of the Omaticaya Clan carry a knife for different purposes (hunting, combact, skinning,...). The knife is the most used life-ending weapon during the hunt and it is part of the rite of the blessing of Eywa.

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• The Na'vi Shields (Na'vi name: M'resh'tuyu) are shields used for both personal protection and ceremonial use by Na'vi.

• Although the shields are effective as protection, their ceremonial use has become more and more important as battles between Na'vi clans have become mostly a thing of the past. All shields are highly decorated but ceremonial versions are woven with traditional patterns that depict a story from Na'vi history or mythology.

• Many symbols are abstract images of the protective power of Eywa, or of heroic ancestors. Newer shields depict images of Terran gunships (or kunsip to the Na'vi) and AMP Suits.

• Wood structure held together with highly decorative woven materials. Materials include animal skin (including hexapede), plant fibers, twine, shells, and wood.

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