Editing Calocedrus (section)

===Archery===
Incense cedar was one of the favored varieties of wood used to make bows by Native Americans in California. Like [[juniper]], and [[Taxus brevifolia|Pacific yew]], the other two coveted bow woods among Pacific Natives, this wood has excellent flexibility and compression strength-weight ratio. When backed with sinew, it produces extremely flexible, fast, hard-hitting bows, which are rivaled only by horn-sinew composite bows for their ability to store and release elastic energy. The archer Saxton Pope observed that [[Ishi]] used this wood to produce short bows.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.archerylibrary.com/books/pope/hunting-with-bow-and-arrow/chapter02_2.html|title = How Ishi made his bow and his method of shooting, from: Hunting with the Bow and Arrow by Saxton Pope, 1923|date = 11 February 2019}}</ref>