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Arrows ok southeastern Alaska and western British Columbia. 



Figs. 1 and l'. Four examples of Tlingit arrowheads, three of them with barbed pieces 

 to which the metal heads are riveted. These arrowheads have two func- 

 tions — that of retrieving the game and that of parting easily from the sliaft 

 and rankling in the victim until it dies. These should be compared care- 

 fully with stone heads in Old World specimes having very long barbs 



Fii;. 3. All in one piece; which widens out into a large cone to form a head ; slightly 

 expanding at the nock. The notch is formed Ijy cutting oft" the eml of tlie 

 arrow into an expanding wedge and then making a very shallow incision 

 across the edge. Painted brown and streaked with red. Length, 38 

 inches. 



Cat. No, (!3551. U. .S. N. M. Sitka, Alaska. Colleeto<l l.y J. .1. McLean. 



Fig. 4. Shaft, of cedar, tapering in two directions. The head is formed of a piece 

 of wire sliarj»eued at one end and driven into the shaft. The other end is 

 llattened and filed to a barb ou one side. Similar to fig. 4, PI. l. 



Cat. Ko. 73.'347, U. S. N.U. Haida.s, Queen Chailotte I.slands. Collected '>y J. G. 

 Swan. 



Fig. 5. Similar to fig. 6, excepting the point is of shell. 



Fig. 6. Sh.\ft, of cedar. Foreshaft let in with a wedge-shaped dowel. Head, a 

 thin sheet of bone, sagittate. Feathers, three,, fastened at the ends with 

 sinew covered with glue. Nock somewhat flat, as in the Eskimo arrow. 

 The noticeable features of this arrow are the thin head of Ijone. the fore- 

 shaft, let into the .shaft and the flattening nock. Length of shaft, 21 inches; 

 foreshaft, 6 inches. 



Cat. Ko. 20694, TT. S. N. M. Bella Coola Indians, Sali.shan stock, B. C. Collected by 

 J. G. Swan. 



Fig. 7. Shaft, of cedar, tapering both ways from the middle. Shaftment painted 

 black. Feathers, three, seized at each end with sinew and glued fast 

 to the shaftment. Xock, bulbous; notch, U-shaped. Foreshaft, of hard 

 wood neatly doweled into the end of the cedar shaft, seized Avith sinew, and 

 painted black. The head is a minutely-barbed thin blade of iron, inserted 

 into the foreshaft and seized with sinew. These are the smallest metal 

 arrow-heads found on any arrow in the world. This arrow was found in Mr. 

 Catlin's collection, after his death, without the name of the tribe; but the 

 wood and the delicate finish point to Oregon as its source. Total length, 

 32 inches. 



Not numbered. Oregon. Collected by Mr. Catlin. 



