EXPLANATION OF PLATK XL VI. 



SiouAN Arrows, Dakota Tribks. 



Fig. 1. Shaft, of osier. Shaftmeut, banded with red. Feathers, three, seized with 

 sinew at the eud and shorn neatly on the onter edges. Near the nock of 

 the arrow is an ornamental feather in the feathering, produced by leaving 

 the plume on both sides of the rib of the feather for about an inch, so that 

 the arrow at this point appears to have six feathers. The nock is slightly 

 spreading; notch, U-shaped. No head. Total length of shaft, 27| inches. 

 Cat. No. 21286, IT. S. N. M. Sioux Indians, Miunesota. Collected l>y Rev. Geo. 

 Aiuslie. 



Fig. 2. On this arrow a pj^ramidal piece of bone serves for a head, and the shaftment 

 IS striped with blue and re<l. This specimen is iigured for the purpose of 

 showing oddities of form since the adoption of the rille. Neither of these 

 arrows, probably, was ever used. Among the Plains Indians the ii'on 

 arrowhead was introduced many years ago, and samples with stone heads 

 are extremely rare and quite open to suspicion. Leugth, 24 inches. 



Cat. No. 8439, U. S. N. M. Sioux Indians, Fort Berthold. Collected by Drs. Gray 

 and Matthews, U. S. Army. 



Fig. 3. Shaft, a rod of osier; blood streaks, very jagged. Feathers, three, seized 

 with sinew, loosely wrapped, glued to the shaftment, and there are streaks 

 of blue paint drawn between the featherings. The nock is bulbous; the 

 notch is widely angular. Head, of chalcedony, notched on the sides and 

 glued into a notch in the end of the shaft. The seizing is gone from this 

 arrow, but the notches in the side of the head, as well as the clean appear- 

 ance of the shaft, indicate that it was once present. 



Fig. J. Shaftment, a delicate rod of osier; blood streaks, wavy. Shaftment tapering 

 toward the nock. Feathers, three, seized at the end Avith sinew and stand- 

 ing off from the .shaftment. Nock, slightly expanding; notch, swallow- 

 tail-shaped. Head, a piece of wire driven into the eud of the shaft, very 

 neatly seized with sinew, and sliarpened at the point. Length, 26 inches. 

 Cat. No. 2466, TJ. S. N. M. Sioux Indiau.s. Collected by Br. Washington Matthews, 

 U. S. Army. 



Fig. 5. Shaft, of osier. Shaftment, banded with red. Feathers, three, seized at 

 each end with sinew and glued. The nock is swallowtail-shaped; notch, 

 angular. In the arrows of the Sioux the nock is usually very much 

 Avidened out at the extremity, giving the warrior a tirm grip in releasing. 

 Head, of obsidian, rudely chippe<l and inserted into the notch in the end 

 of the shaft. In the companion to this arrow the blood streaks are slightly 

 jagged. The head is of white jasper and the featlier is lOi mclies long. 

 Length, 24 inches. Length of feathers, 10 niches. 



Cat. No. 8439, IT. S. N. M. Sioux Indians. Collected by Gray and Matthews, U. S. 

 Army. 



