EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXXX. 



Cheyenne Quiver, self Bow and Arrow, with Shaft Grooves. 



Fig. 1. Quiver, mountain lion skin. Bow case and arrow case separate. Both 

 made with hair outward, and ornamented with fringes. From the bottom 

 of the bow case depends one of the feet of the lion with claws. At the 

 bottom is another foot of the lion wrapped with a red flannel cloth and 

 slightly decorated with beads. Arrow case fringed at the top and bottom 

 with strips of hide, and with a long pendant from the upper border made 

 of the lion's tail, faced with red flannel and decorated with beadwork 

 and ribbon. A unique attachment to this quiver is a streamer consisting 

 of one and a half yards of red and black calico sewed to the inner lining 

 of the arrow case. Bandolier, of lion skin faced with tent cloth (cotton 

 duck). The bow shown in the plate with its arrow is of the form common 

 throughout the Plains of the Great West. It is made of ash, and has a 

 slight double curve. Length : bow case, 40 inches ; arrow case, 25 inches. 

 Cat. Ko. 129873, V. S. N. M. Cheyenne Indians, Algonquian stock. Collected by H. 

 M. Creel, U. S. Army. 



