EXPLANATION OF PLATE L X . 

 Akrows with Stops, Retrieving Barbs, or Compound Pile. 



Fig. 1. Made of iiine wood; the shaft, head, and jjoint cut out of one piece. 

 Feathers, three, 4|- inches long, laid on flat in the following manner : The 

 three feathers were first attached to the butt of the arrow Ity a coiled 

 Avrapping of sinew, their other extremities pointed backward; then they 

 were doubled backward and the ends seized Avith sinew. This makes 

 a very secure fastening for the feather. The coiled wrapping is continued 

 over the nock and fastened off in the notch. Nock, flat; notch, U-shaped. 

 The head, bulbous. The point is cut out of this by whittling away the 

 wood so as to leave a long projection like a nail or spike. Total length, 

 31| inches. 



Cat. :No. 90123, TJ. S. N. M. Eskimo, Ungava. Collected by L. M. Turner. 

 Fig. 2- A'ery rudely made. Shaft, of spruce. Shaftment, flat. Feathers, two, laid 

 on flat, seized with sinew. The nock is flat and the notch angular. Head, 

 a common cut nail, driven into the end of the shaft and seized with sinew. 

 At the inner part of this seizing a piece of nail is lashed on crosswise so 

 as to prevent the arrow going more than two inches into the body of the 

 tlie game. Total length of shaft, 25 inches. 



Cat. Xo. 90138, U. S. N. M. Whale Eiver, Hudson Bay. Collected by Lucien Turner. 



Fig. 3. The sii.^ft, of osier. There is no feather. The nock is tightly seized with 

 sinew cord; notch, U-shaped. The peculiarity of this arrow is that the 

 point, of iron or bone, is lashed to the beveled end of the shaft and the 

 tang is projected backwards into a long barb. This arrow is used in 

 shooting prairie dogs. It is said that the Navahoe uses now a little bit 

 of mirror with which to throw the sunlight into the eyes of the prairie 

 dog until he can get near enough to drive one of these arrows into his 

 body. Upon the least alarm or injury the creatures dive into their holes 

 and this arrow enables the hunter, if he strikes one of them, to retrieve 

 his game. The action of this arrow is very similar to that of the vermin 

 hook used by the Ute Indians, and also to those of the northwest coast. 

 Total length of shaft, 33 inches (32^ inches). 



Cat. No. 126740, TJ. S. N. M. JS'avalioe Indiana. Collected by Thomas Keam. 



Fig. 4. The shaft is of spruce wood, ornamented here and there with band of red 

 paint, cylindrical. Shaftment, flat. Feathers, three, seized at their ends 

 with twisted sinew thread. One feather is in the middle of one of the 

 flat sides ; the other two feathers are at the round corners of the other 

 side. The flat nock flares a little upward, and the notch is angular. 

 This IS a bident or double-pointed arrow, having two barbs of bone 

 inserted into the end of the shaft, so as to give them a sjiread of three - 

 fourths of an inch at their points, one of Avhich is a little longer than the 

 other. They are held to the shaft by a wrapping of sinew cord. The 

 barbs face inward. Total length of shaft, 26 inches. 



Cat. Xo. 76705, U. S.N. M. Eskimo, Bristol Bay ; Fort Alexandra, Alaska. Collected 

 by J. W. Johnson. 



