EXPLANATION OF PLATE X L U . 



Arrows ov the Pueblo Region and .Southwestern United States. 



Fig. 1. Shaft, a .small .stem or twiu,, with very shallow and simious shaft streaks. 

 Feathers, three, loosely held on and seized at either end with sinew. At 

 the edges of the shaftment are bands of brown and black. The nock is 

 slightly spreading. The notch is U-shaped. Point, of iron, leaf-shaped 

 and slender, the tang inserted in a notch at the end of the shaft and seized 

 with sinew. This arrow, like most of those collected from this tribe, is 

 verj' coarsely made. Total length of shaft, 24j inches. 



Cat. No. 75678, TJ. S. N. M. Znni Indians. Colleoted liy Jame.s Stevenson. 



Fig. 2. Shaet, of reed. Foreshaft, a twig, perhaps of greasewood set into the 

 end of the reed of the shaft and seized with sinew. The stone head is 

 sagittate, let into the head of the foreshaft, and fastened first with sinew 

 and then covered with gnm. The whole foreshaft is covered with dark 

 glim. Feathers, three, seized at the ends with sinew' and trimmed down 

 along the margins. It is possil)le that these reed arrows of the Oraibi 

 are derived from the Mohave or Apache fnrther south. Length, shaft, 24 

 inches; foreshaft, 12 inches. 



Oat. No. 11780, D. S. N. M. Hopi or Moki jpueLlo of Oraibi (Slioshoueaii) Arizona. 

 Collected by J. W. Powell. 



Fig. 3. Shaft, of twig; shaft streaks very wavy and crowded. In comparison 

 with the size of the arrow the feathers ai"e very wide and conspicuous. 

 They are laid close to the shaftment and are seized with sinew. The nock 

 is slightly expanding. Notch, angular; head of jasper, small, inserted 

 into the end ot the shaft and seized with a diagonal lashing of sinew, 

 which i>asse8 also once transversely. Total length, 26 inches. Especial 

 attention is called to the existence of the reed arrow (fig. 2) and tbe sim- 

 ple arrow in the same pueblo. 



Cat. No. 22594, U. S. N. M. Hopi or Moki Indians, Arizona. ( 'ollcil.Mlby Maj. 

 J. W. Powell. 



Fi(i. 4. Shaft, a single rod bluntly pointed at the head and seized with sinew. 

 Feathers, three, neatly seized with sinew at the fore end and by seven 

 narrow bands of sinew behind. The feathers are far from the nock, which 

 is also bound with sinew. This type of feathering is rare in America. 

 Length, 30 inches. 



Cat. No. 10557.3, U. S. N. M. Pima Indiau.s, Salado Valley, Arizona. Collected 

 by F. Webb Hodge. 



Fig. T). This arrow is similar to that shown in lig. 4, but dift'ering from it in having 

 a small stone head wrapped crosswise, in having the feathers nearer ihe 

 nock, and in the omission of tlie intervening wrappings of sinew on the 

 feather. 



Cat. No. 70021, U. S. 1^. M. Pinio Indians. Collected by Dr. Edward Palmer. 



