EXPLANATION OF PLATE XLIV. 



Arrows from various Tribes of the Great Interior Basin. 



Pig. 1. Shaft, of rhus. Shaftment paiuted witli red and browu paint. Feathers, 

 three, laid on close to the shaftrnt-nt and neatly seized with sinew. The 

 nock is cylindrical and the notch U-shaped. Head, of chalcedony, in- 

 serted into a shallow notch at the end of the shaftment, seized with sinew, 

 and afterward cemented with mesquite gnm. This is a beautifully made 

 specimen. Total length of shaft, 27 inches. 



Cat. No. 14699, U. S. N. M. Piute Indian.s. Collected by Major J. W. Powell. 



Fig. 2. Shaft, of hard wood, trimmed down. Head, of hoop iron, fastened ou with 

 lashing of thread. Feathers, three, seized with sinew, glued down and 

 trimmed along the margins. Nock, swallow-tailed, and the feathering 

 extends beyond the nock. Length, shaft, 2 feet 3 inches. 



Cat. No. 131238, U. S. N. M. Slioshoneau. Collected by G. Browu Goode. 



Fig. 3. Gambling arrow of the Apache Indians. Shaft, painted blue; three tolerably 

 straight blood streaks. Feathers, three, seized with sinew. Nock in form 

 of swallow's tail. Notch, acute angular. The poiut of wood is a continua- 

 tion of the shaft, triangular in cross-section. The ornamentation on the 

 point consists of lozenge-shaped cavities and furrows filled with red and 

 blue paint. In a series of these arrows no two are ornamented exactly 

 alike. Used in divination and gambling. Mr. Frank H. Gushing connects 

 the divination by throwing a bunch of these arrows with the position of 

 the arrows in the Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions. 



Cat. No. 73268, U. S. N. M. Apache Indiaus. Collected by G. H. Leigh. 



Fig. 4. A rude uutinished arrow with shaft unstraightened. Three feathers loosely 

 attached to the shaft with sinew, the whole showing the degeneration of 

 the art of arrow-making in ceremonial usages. 

 Cat. No. 1490, U. S. N. M. 



Fig. 5. Shaft, of rhus. Feathers, three, seized with sinew. Nock, cylindrical; 

 notch, angular. There is no head. Length, 23.} inches. 



Cat. No. 22287, U. S. N. M. Bannock Indians, Idaho. Collected by W. H. Danilson. 



Fig. 6. Shaft, of osier. Blood streaks, slightly wavy. Feathers, three, seized with 

 sinew. It is difficult to say whether they were formerly glued to the shaft- 

 ment or not. Shaftment, cylindrical. Notch, angular. Head of iron in- 

 serted into the end of the shaft and seized with sinew. In other speci- 

 mens from the same tribe stone heads are found fastened on with a diagonal 

 lashing of sinew. Total length, 26 inches. 



Cat. No. 9048, U. S. N. M. Snake Indians, Idaho. Collected by Dr. C. Moffat. 



