292 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



classic vases and gems. The Japanese bows and arrows are shown in 



Siebold's great work.-'" 

 The bow of the North American Indian is seldom much over 4 feet 

 long and is always used on horseback; his aim is not 

 remarkable for accuracy, but he discharges the arrows 

 with great force and rapidity. The bow ismade of wood, 

 bono, or iron. An ash bow with the sinews of the buf- 

 falo or deer worked into the back is no contemptible 

 weapon either to draw or to face. The bow, Fig. 142, 

 like the Roman arcus patulus, is made of several horns 

 spliced together. In the present case, the 

 horns are those of the mountain sheep, Oris 

 Montana. They are made by heating the 

 horns in hot ashes and drawing them out, 

 then splicing pieces together with bands of 

 deer sinew. The joints are hidden by orna- 

 mental coverings of cloth, skin, or dyed por- 

 cupine quills. Such bows are valued at the 

 price of two horses, as the horns of which 

 they are made must be obtained by barter 

 with Rocky Mountain Indians. The arrow 

 is of wood or reed and headed with flint, bone, 

 or iron. Indian arrow-heads are the most 

 common article in the American sections of 

 ethnological museums, and show wide differ- 

 ence in shape, material, and size. The exam- 

 ple, Fig. 143, has a point of chipped chalced- 

 ony. Fig. Ill also shows chipped flint 

 arrowheads of the Pai-Utes of Southern 

 Utah. They are cemented and bound to the 

 wooden shafts. 



The Indians of the California peninsula 

 make bows of willow-root, and attach strings 

 of intestines. Their arrows are of reed with 

 triangular hard wood heads. 235 Flint arrow- 

 heads of Terra del Fuego, and of the stone 

 age of Sweden, arc shown and described in 

 Nil son,-"" and those of the dwellers on the ¥ 



I' i' • 1 r_' - Siott r Tn 



dianh -pile villages of the Swiss lakes, in Desor's F l r ;- ux ~^ ,x , 



ain sheep"! horns. , .,.,- i. • , ■, , „ ;",'",'"', 



wnrk.-" Bond arrow points and bows of yew arrow, Dakota. 



are also found in the same localities.-'- 1 



""Nippon," vi. PL l, bis; vii, pi. r.t. Figs. 1. 1, a, 2; vn, PL 22; see also Ibid, ii, 

 PL 5, for Lows and arrows in greal variety. Also upper row in PL 15 and 21, vol. ii. 

 Baegart, in Smithsonian Report., 1863, ]>i>. 362, :5. 

 - one ago, Plate \ . and pages i. 43-5. 



anslatioii in Smithsonian Report, 1865, p. 374, 356. 

 - • Morlot. Translation in Smithsonian Report, 1^(12, p. 376. 



