Thwe makings of a boy's bow

When my brother and I were playing in the patches of native bush on our father's farm, we would use lengths of the supplejack (Kareao) to create a makeshift bow. He was the cowboy (a cap gun was his 'weapon') and I was the Indian, with a makeshift supplejack bow.This would have been an armoury to small boys with little knowledge beyond what was in comics our cousins had. 

The kareao vine is common in our rain forests, and indeed elsewhere. It was a source of food (young and tender shoots apparently tasted like beans. Lengths of the vine were used to make hinaki (eel and crayfish pots)