EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXXVII. 



ArACHE Arrow Case ani> Arrow. 



Fig. 1. Quiver, deerskin, smoke -tanned; bow case wanting. Arrow case, long 

 tapering sack, stiffened at the back by means of a rod of wood sewed on 

 with buckskin string. Decorated along the back and around the margins 

 with scallops cut in red flannel and skin. A narrow band of exactly 

 the same pattern is painted down the outside, directly opposite and 

 around the upper margin. Bandolier, simple string of buckskin attached 

 to stiffener. Filled with typical reed-shaft arrows, with hardwood twig 

 foreshafts and iron points, as shown on the right of the quiver. Length, 

 35 inches. 



Cat. No. 21515, U. S. N.M. Apaehe Indians, Athapascan stock, Arizona. Collected 

 by J. B. "White, U. S. Army. 



